pujshah.bsky.social
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One of the few violence prevention interventions that has REPEATEDLY been shown to work = youth mentorship programming.

If you want to help combat violence, get involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters, 4H, or the like! And encourage your local government to support them too.
New research from the IFS showing the closure of youth centres during the 2010s was shortsighted. For every £1 saved, the costs to affected users, crime victims and public spending in the police and the criminal justice system amount to £2.85

ifs.org.uk/publications...
The effects of youth clubs on education and crime | Institute for Fiscal Studies
Using quasi-experimental variation from austerity-related cuts, I provide the first causal estimates of youth clubs' effects on education and crime.
ifs.org.uk
November 14, 2024 at 9:21 AM