Crimen, violencia, y conflicto

Crimen y la violencia son los principales factores que impiden el desarrollo económico. Al mismo tiempo, los esfuerzos para controlar el crimen imponen importantes costes en la sociedad. Nuestros afiliados explorar menor costo y los métodos más humanos de la reducción de la delincuencia y la violencia, y también estudian maneras de reformar los sistemas de justicia penal.
Sule Alan talks to children in a classroom in Turkey.
Policy Publication

Understanding Each Other: Improving Inter-Ethnic Cohesion in Schools in Turkey

An interactive classroom program encouraging students to consider one another’s perspectives in Turkey lowered peer violence, improved relationships between refugee and Turkish students, and increased prosocial behaviors like trust, cooperation, and altruism.

Mixed Christian and Muslim amateur soccer league groups greet each other before a game.
Policy Publication

Improving Tolerance through Soccer in Post-ISIS Iraq

Promoting positive and cooperative contact helped Iraqi Christians displaced by ISIS build tolerance toward Muslim peers after conflict, but these effects did not generalize to the broader Muslim community.

News

Governance, Crime, and Conflict Initiative Evidence Wrap-up

What are the most promising strategies for reducing crime, violence, and conflict? The past decade has seen a dramatic expansion in the experimental literature designed to help answer this question. Moving beyond evaluations of individual programs, these studies seek to advance our understanding of...

houses in Medellín, Colombia
Evaluation

Contesting Criminal Gang Governance in Medellin: The Impacts of Intensive Municipal Governance and Community Organization on Gang Control and Governing of Neighborhoods

In partnership with the City of Medellín, researchers randomly introduced a program that intensified government outreach to gang-controlled neighborhoods. The study found no evidence that the city’s intervention reduced gang rule.

Two men sitting down listening to a facilitator of the UBL program
Blog

Preventing intimate partner violence by engaging men: Evidence from Unite for Better Life in Ethiopia

A growing body of evidence suggests that gender inequality, especially social norms that endorse violence against women, is one of the main drivers of IPV. What programs can effectively build more gender equitable attitudes and behaviors, and do these behaviors translate into reductions in violence...

A world map with dots noting locations of GCCI projects.
Blog

Pushing the boundaries of governance, crime, and conflict research: Innovations in research, measurement, and design

In 2017, J-PAL and IPA jointly launched the Governance, Crime, and Conflict Initiative to increase our understanding of effective policies to promote peace and good governance, reduce crime, and support individuals and communities recovering from conflict. With three years of research behind us, we...

farmer (face blurred) showing off her bean plot to the research team
Evaluation

Farmers and the fear of crime: Improving agricultural productivity through farm protection in Kenya

In Kenya, researchers matched farmers with subsidized, trained watchmen to evaluate the effect of improved farm security on farmers’ decision-making, agricultural productivity, and conflict with neighbors. Security was shown to increase and in response, farmers made different cropping, time use, and...

Young men participate in an activity for the Becoming a Man program in Chicago. Photo: Rob Kozloff | University of Chicago
Policy Insight

Reducing criminal behavior through cognitive behavioral therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can reduce criminal behavior among both at-risk youth and criminally engaged men, likely by helping them focus more on the future, change their self-perceptions, and/or slow their decision-making.

Sector Chairs

Co-Líder, Crimen, violencia, y conflicto

Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies

University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

Co-Líder, Crimen, violencia, y conflicto

Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies

University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy