Crime

How a Chicago Summer Job Program Reduced Violent Crime

Article cites UChicago Crime Lab research, which finds that summer job programs reduced violent crimes arrests by 43 percent


Community Prosecutions Credited With Drops In Crime

Prof. Thomas Miles discusses the effectiveness of community prosecution in neighborhoods for driving down violent crime rates


Chicago sees progress, but kids still caught in crossfire

Prof. Harold Pollack comments on ongoing violence, as city faces summertime rise in crime


U.S. News & World Report

How thinking about thinking reduces crime

Prof. Harold Pollack examines how changing behavior decreases arrests for at-risk teens


Mother Jones

Chicagoans trapped between heat and crime

Prof. Jens Ludwig says violence concentrated in low-income areas without air conditioning


CBS Evening News

Alum marshals data to fight Chicago crime

As CPD’s Chief Data Officer, Brett Goldstein, SM’05, uses predictive analysis to find trouble spots.


University of Chicago Magazine

Elizabeth Flock

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