May 2023

Machine Learning Can Predict Shooting Victimization Well Enough To Help Prevent It

Max Kapustin Sara Heller Zubin Jelveh

This National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper shows that shootings are predictable enough to be preventable.

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Coming April 21: Unforgiving Places

Apr 2025

Crime Lab Pritzker Director Jens Ludwig authored a book that argues the lack of progress in reducing gun violence ultimately stems from our having misunderstood the nature of the problem, and that behavioral science gives us a new way to understand – and solve – gun violence in America.

Local Gun Violence Dashboards
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Local Gun Violence Dashboards

Jan 2025

Chicago’s Violence Reduction Dashboard, launched by the Crime Lab in 2021, is featured in a toolkit created by Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund as a part of its Gun Violence Data Fellowship.

Valuing the benefits of reducing firearm violence in the United States
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Valuing the benefits of reducing firearm violence in the United States

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This paper estimates the monetized value of the impact of reducing firearm violence and how that value is distributed across the population.

IL Office of Firearm Violence Prevention
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IL Office of Firearm Violence Prevention

Jul 2024

The University of Chicago Crime Lab has partnered with the Illinois Office of Firearm Violence Prevention (OFVP) in support of the OFVP’s goal to use data to focus resources. The Crime Lab prepared the following interactive map to support the RPSA Youth Development Services grantmaking process.

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Jens Ludwig — Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
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Politics and Prose Bookstore
May 2025

Jens Ludwig — Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence

Join Crime Lab Pritzker Director Jens Ludwig for a book talk and signing at Politics and Prose Bookstore at Union Market in Washington, DC for his upcoming book, “Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence.”

Jens Ludwig and Chief Bill Scott: The Unexpected Origins of Gun Violence
Event
Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California
Apr 2025

Jens Ludwig and Chief Bill Scott: The Unexpected Origins of Gun Violence

Join Crime Lab Pritzker Director Jens Ludwig for a book talk and signing at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, CA for his upcoming book, “Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence.”

Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
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UChicago Crime Lab
Apr 2025

Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence

Crime Lab Pritzker Director Jens Ludwig authored a book that argues the lack of progress in reducing gun violence ultimately stems from our having misunderstood the nature of the problem, and that behavioral science gives us a new way to understand – and solve – gun violence in America.