A new study by the University of Chicago Crime Lab, in partnership with the Chicago Public Schools and local nonprofits Youth Guidance and World Sport Chicago, provides rigorous scientific evidence that a violence reduction program succeeded in creating a sizable decline in violent crime arrests among youth who participated in group counseling and mentoring. The Crime Lab study - by far the largest of its kind ever conducted - is unique in that it was structured like a randomized clinical trial of the sort regularly used to generate "gold standard" evidence in the medical area...
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