by All of us want to feel safe in our daily lives. Yet when we think about crime, our first response is often a blanket approach: find the bad guys, and punish them. But what if there were another way? This week on the show, researchers Sara Heller and Chris Blattman explore how technology and psychology can be used to radically transform our approach to crime. Additional Resources “Social Networks and the Risk of Gunshot Injury,” by Andrew Papachristos, Anthony Braga, David Hureau in the Journal of Urban Health, June 2012 “Machine Learning Can Predict Shooting Victimization Well Enough to Help Prevent It,” by Sara B. Heller, Benjamin Jakubowski, Zubin Jelveh & Max Kapustin, National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2022 “Thinking Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and
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All of us want to feel safe in our daily lives. Yet when we think about crime, our first response is often a blanket approach: find the bad guys, and punish them. But what if there were another way? This week on the show, researchers Sara Heller and Chris Blattman explore how technology and psychology can be used to radically transform our approach to crime.
Additional Resources
“Social Networks and the Risk of Gunshot Injury,” by Andrew Papachristos, Anthony Braga, David Hureau in the Journal of Urban Health, June 2012
“Machine Learning Can Predict Shooting Victimization Well Enough to Help Prevent It,” by Sara B. Heller, Benjamin Jakubowski, Zubin Jelveh & Max Kapustin, National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2022
“Thinking Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago,” by Sarah B. Heller, Anuj K. Shah, Jonathan Guryan, Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Harold A. Pollack in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2017
“Summer jobs reduce violence among disadvantaged youth,” Sarah B. Heller in Science, December 2014
Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace, by Christopher Blattman, April 2022
“Cognitive Behavior Therapy Reduces Crime and Violence over 10 Years: Experimental Evidence,” by Christopher Blattman, Sebastian Chaskel, Julian C. Jamison, and Margaret Sheridan, National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2022
“The Promise and Pitfalls of Conflict Prediction: Evidence from Colombia and Indonesia,” by Samuel Bazzi, Robert A. Blair, Christopher Blattman, Oeindrila Dube, Matthew Gudgeon, and Richard Peck in The Review of Economics and Statistics, July 2022
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