CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) – Researchers and anti-violence activists say they want to expand programs that are now successfully keeping young people away from gun violence.
Professor Jonathan Davis with the University of Oregon says the University of Chicago Crime Lab study clearly shows that the Choose to Change Community Violence Intervention (C2C®) program and others like it have sharply reduced the numbers of young people engaging in gun violence, even with more limited efforts.
“All those things have been shown to work, but I was really blown away that we found such large effects, given how low intensity the intervention was,” Davis says…