Summer jobs reduce violence among disadvantaged youth.

Rethinking Youth Employment Programs: Evidence from Two Summer Jobs Experiments

Every day, acts of violence injure over 6,000 people in the U.S. Despite decades of social science arguing that joblessness among disadvantaged youth is a key cause of violent offending, programs to remedy youth unemployment do not consistently reduce delinquency. This study tests whether summer jobs, which shift focus from remediation to prevention, can reduce crime. In a randomized controlled...

Summer jobs reduce youth violence among disadvantaged youth

The role of exposure to community violence and developmental problems among inner-city youth.

While research has well documented that urban youth are exposed to increasing rates of community violence, little is known about what increases risk for violence exposure, what protects children from exposure to violence, and what factors reduce the most negative outcomes associated with witnessing violence. This study expands on current research by evaluating the relations between exposure to ...

Serious Violence Victimization and Perpetration among Youth Living in the Slums of Kampala, Uganda

INTRODUCTION Violence among youth is a major public health issue globally. Despite these concerns, youth violence surveillance and prevention research are either scarce or non-existent, particularly in developing regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of this study is to quantitatively determine the prevalence of violence involving weapons in a convenience sample of service-seeking yo...

Fear of Neighborhood Violence During Adolescence Predicts Development of Obesity a Decade Later: Gender Differences Among African Americans

BACKGROUND African American youth are more likely than other racial and ethnic groups to be obese. African American youth are also more likely to live in disadvantaged neighborhoods which increase their victimization, observation, and fear of violence. OBJECTIVES This study tested if victimization, observation, and fear of violence in the neighborhood during adolescence predict trajectory of ...