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Jon Guyan - Use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Crime
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:22:44
Publish Date: 2017-11-05 00:00:00
Description: Crime and violence have enormous social costs. These costs are disproportionately borne by economically disadvantaged groups. Finding promising ways to reduce crime at reasonable cost is therefore an important policy goal. While great progress has been made over the past several decades in medicine and public health to find ways to reduce the incidence of most leading causes of death, the nation's homicide rate is about the same as it was in 1950. Dr. Guryan and Director Yokum discuss some strategies that show promising results include programs based on cognitive behavioral therapy that help youths to stop and think for a moment before acting. About our guest: Economist Jonathan Guryan is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also serves as a co-director of the Urban Education Lab, an editor of the Journal of Labor Economics, and a research consultant for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. His research has received support from the Smith Richardson Foundation, W. T. Grant Foundation, National Science Foundation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and Institute for Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education. In 2009, he received the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award from the Labor and Employment Relations Association. Before joining Northwestern, he was on the faculty of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
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