skills and preferences reduce crime and violence. The authors recruited criminally-engaged Liberian men and randomized half … also randomized $200 grants. Cash alone and therapy alone dramatically reduced crime and violence, but effects dissipated … within a year. When cash followed therapy, however, crime and violence decreased by as much as 50 percent for at least a year …

In most societies, a small number of people commit the most serious violence. Short-term studies have shown that … violence, especially when policymakers are searching for alternatives to aggressive policing and incarceration …

This paper tests the feasibility of local-level violence forecasting. We apply standard prediction models to new data … from 242 Liberian communities to investigate whether it is to possible to predict outbreaks of local violence with … violence in 2010 using 2008 risk factors. We then made forecasts of violence in 2012, before collecting data. Our model …

Policymakers can take actions to prevent local conflict before it begins, if such violence can be accurately predicted … decades of fine-grained violence data by type, alongside hundreds of annual risk factors. We predict violence one year ahead … with a range of machine learning techniques. Models reliably identify persistent, high-violence hot spots. Violence is not …

adults, and that investments in them reduce crime and violence. We recruited criminally-engaged men and randomized half to … lifestyle. We also randomized $200 grants. Cash alone and therapy alone initially reduced crime and violence, but effects … dissipated over time. When cash followed therapy, crime and violence decreased dramatically for at least a year. We hypothesize …

adults, and that investments in them reduce crime and violence. We recruited criminally-engaged men and randomized half to … lifestyle. We also randomized $200 grants. Cash alone and therapy alone initially reduced crime and violence, but effects … dissipated over time. When cash followed therapy, crime and violence decreased dramatically for at least a year. We hypothesize …