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Slowing Down Youth Violence

Fri, March 22, 11:45am to 12:45pm, Hilton Baltimore, Floor: Level 2, Holiday Ballroom

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Violence is one of the leading causes of death to adolescents in the United States and a key driver of disparities in life expectancy, with important downstream implications for schooling, health and poverty. Violence is also a problem that has been quite persistent; while mortality rates from almost every leading cause of death have plummeted since 1950, the homicide rate today is similar to what it was 70 years ago. We typically think of major social problems that persist for decades as being quite difficult to solve. But in this talk Jens Ludwig of the University of Chicago argues that a growing body of research from behavioral science suggests we may be able to make remarkable progress in a remarkably simple way: By helping youth in key situations learn to stop, look and listen.

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