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 …

skills and preferences reduce crime and violence. The authors recruited criminally-engaged Liberian men and randomized half …

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 …