Report Study: Summer Jobs Reduce Violent Crime Among Disadvantaged Youths

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Give a disadvantaged youth a summer job, and he or she will be much less likely to commit a violent crime. That's the conclusion from a randomized controlled trial just published to the journal Science.

University of Pennsylvania criminologist Sara Heller oversaw the study, which took place in 13 high-violence schools in areas of Chicago. 1,634 students participated in the summer of 2012. Almost all of them were minorities, and more than 90% were on free or reduced lunch. 350 students were randomly assigned to 25-hour per week summer jobs, another 350 were given 15-hour per week jobs along with 10 hours of social-emotional learning classes "aimed at teaching youth to understand and manage the aspects of their thoughts, emotions, and behavior that might interfere with employment," and the remaining students carried on with their lives as normal. Jobs were paid at the Illinois minimum wage and lasted 8 weeks.

With the help of the Chicago Police Department, Heller observed arrest data for the duration of the study and 13 months after. Arrests for violent crime decreased 43% among the two treatment groups compared to the control group. Property and drug-related crimes slightly increased, but the differences were statistically insignificant.

Read more here. (Real Clear Science)
 
Varine

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You know what else would curb violence? Fixing the fucking ghettos.
 
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It's pretty easy, it's just inconvenient to basically have a civil war while rooting that shit out.
 
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They could probably just blow it up, blame it on the previous administration, and nothing would happen.
 
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Or just fully admit that they blew it up. Who would give a shit, its poor people we are talking about.
If we dont treat them badly they would think somethings wrong.
 
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Who knows? We've never not treated them badly.
 
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Maybe they would go rampage because they think they are finally free to do what they want.
 
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I mean, you don't really have time for crimes when you're working LOL. I am myself an writemypaper employee so i know what i'm talking about.
 
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