Policy Insights in Crime, Violence, and Conflict

J-PAL’s Crime, Violence, and Conflict sector focuses on promoting safe communities and designing effective policies to manage and reduce violence and conflict. The policy insight below summarizes lessons from randomized evaluations on the impact of programs that draw on principles of cognitive behavioral therapy to reduce crime and violence.
Chris Blattman (University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy) and Oeindrila Dube (University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy), Crime, Violence, and Conflict Co-Chairs
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The impacts of economic interventions on intimate partner violence

Last updated: juillet 2022
An estimated one in every three women worldwide has suffered physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner in her lifetime. Achieving gender equality and eliminating violence against women are major global development goals. One popular strategy to reduce IPV is to increase women’s access to...

Lutter contre les comportements délinquants grâce à la thérapie cognitivo-comportementale

Last updated: avril 2018
La thérapie cognitivo-comportementale (TCC) peut contribuer à réduire les comportements délinquants chez les jeunes à risque et chez les hommes ayant déjà commis des actes répréhensibles, notamment en les aidant à se concentrer davantage sur l’avenir, à modifier leur perception de soi et/ou à...

Sector Chairs

Co-chair/chaire, Crime, violence et conflits

Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies

University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

Co-chair/chaire, Crime, violence et conflits

Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies

University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy

Sector Contacts

Aimee Barnes

Senior Policy Associate, J-PAL Global

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Senior Policy Associate, J-PAL Global

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Senior Policy Manager, J-PAL Global