Study: Chicago counseling program reduces youth violence, improves school engagement

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...