University of Chicago Crime Lab

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer announced the University’s new Urban Labs initiative on March 9, 2015, as part of an event at the Chicago Cultural Center titled “Transforming Cities with Evidence-Based Policy.” The program featured remarks by US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro and a panel discussion with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, moderated by Roseanna Ander, founding executive director of UChicago’s Urban Education Lab and Crime Lab.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer announced the University’s new Urban Labs initiative on March 9, 2015, as part of an event at the Chicago Cultural Center titled “Transforming Cities with Evidence-Based Policy.” The program featured remarks by US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro and a panel discussion with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, moderated by Roseanna Ander, founding executive director of UChicago’s Urban Education Lab and Crime Lab.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Crime Lab, with Youth Guidance's Becoming a Man (BAM), Boston's Match Education, and the Chicago Public Schools, studies a two-pronged approach to improving the lives of Chicago youth.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The University of Chicago Crime Lab will partner with the city’s Department of Family and Support Services and law enforcement agencies on an expanded summer program, One Summer Chicago PLUS, to give at risk youth opportunities for employment, mentoring and social and emotional learning experiences. The Crime Lab will evaluate the program’s effectiveness in reducing youth involvement in shootings and their engagement in school. The data will determine costs and the benefits of the program and provide guidance in designing future programs. The Crime Lab, Chicago Community Trust, Youth Guidance, and the City of Chicago met in early April to kick-off One Summer Chicago PLUS. For more information about the University of Chicago Crime Lab, please visit: http://crimelab.uchicago.edu/ For more information about the "Becoming A Man" program, please visit: http://www.youth-guidance.org/our-programs/b-a-m-becoming-a-man/ For more information about One Summer Chicago PLUS, please visit: http://www.onesummerchicago.org/

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The University of Chicago Crime Lab will partner with the city’s Department of Family and Support Services and law enforcement agencies on an expanded summer program, One Summer Chicago PLUS, to give at risk youth opportunities for employment, mentoring and social and emotional learning experiences. The Crime Lab will evaluate the program’s effectiveness in reducing youth involvement in shootings and their engagement in school. The data will determine costs and the benefits of the program and provide guidance in designing future programs. The Crime Lab, Chicago Community Trust, Youth Guidance, and the City of Chicago met in early April to kick-off One Summer Chicago PLUS. For more information about the University of Chicago Crime Lab, please visit: http://crimelab.uchicago.edu/ For more information about the "Becoming A Man" program, please visit: http://www.youth-guidance.org/our-programs/b-a-m-becoming-a-man/ For more information about One Summer Chicago PLUS, please visit: http://www.onesummerchicago.org/

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Jens Ludwig, the McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law and Public Policy at the University of Chicago and director of The University of Chicago Crime Lab, explains the success of the "Becoming a Man" emotional learning program operated by the agency Youth Guidance. This presentation was delivered at a seminar in early April for foundation and civic leaders to discuss One Summer Chicago PLUS, an expanded summer program that combines job opportunities with mentoring and social emotional training. For more information about the University of Chicago Crime Lab, please visit: http://crimelab.uchicago.edu/ For more information about the "Becoming A Man" program, please visit: http://www.youth-guidance.org/our-programs/b-a-m-becoming-a-man/ For more information about One Summer Chicago PLUS, please visit: http://www.onesummerchicago.org/

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Jens Ludwig, the McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law and Public Policy at the University of Chicago and director of The University of Chicago Crime Lab, explains the success of the "Becoming a Man" emotional learning program operated by the agency Youth Guidance. This presentation was delivered at a seminar in early April for foundation and civic leaders to discuss One Summer Chicago PLUS, an expanded summer program that combines job opportunities with mentoring and social emotional training. For more information about the University of Chicago Crime Lab, please visit: http://crimelab.uchicago.edu/ For more information about the "Becoming A Man" program, please visit: http://www.youth-guidance.org/our-programs/b-a-m-becoming-a-man/ For more information about One Summer Chicago PLUS, please visit: http://www.onesummerchicago.org/

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A new study conducted at the University of Chicago Crime Lab in coordination with nonprofits Youth Guidance and World Sport Chicago and local Chicago Public Schools provides new evidence that B.A.M. (Becoming a Man), a program of group counseling and sports activities, significantly reduces violent crime arrests among participating students. In light of this success, Harper High School announces its implementation of the B.A.M. program in partnership with the Crime Lab.