• $500,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 1 year)

  Community & Economic Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The University of Chicago Crime Lab was created to generate scientific evidence--primarily through randomized controlled trials--about promising programs to reduce crime and violence. This grant supports the research design and pilot implementation phase of a study of a promising middle-grades-focused, anti-violence intervention. The study--which will test whether a two-year cognitive behavioral therapy training program produces long-term anti-violence effects, and whether parallel academic enrichment can lead to improved student academic performance--will be a centerpiece of the Foundation's recently-launched anti-violence initiative designed to reduce gun violence in Chicago neighborhoods.

• $450,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Duration 3 years)

  Policy Research

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The University of Chicago Crime Lab promotes long-term progress in reducing crime, violence, and related challenge such as school dropout. It conducts rigorous evaluations of innovative intervention strategies, including randomized experiments and benefit-cost analyses to help policymakers determine how best to allocate scarce resources. This grant provides Crime Lab with flexible operating support that will enable it to respond to growing demands and opportunities, build staff capacity, and enhance organizational stability; and to expand its portfolio of projects, provide technical assistance to government agencies and nonprofits, and increase the dissemination and communication of key research findings.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded University of Chicago Crime Lab $950,000 between 2010 and 2013.