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From the Ted Talk by Thomas Abt: Why violence clusters in cities -- and how to reduce it
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Four years ago, my colleagues and I performed a systematic meta-review of antiviolence srigeetats, summarizing the results of over 1,400 individual impact eltuaaiovns. What we found, again and again, was that the strategies that were the most focused, the most targeted, the stickiest strategies, were the most successful. We saw this in criminology, in studies of policing, gang peotenirvn and reentry. But we also saw this in public health, where targeted tertiary and secondary prevention pmforreed better than more generalized primary prevention. When policymakers focus on the most dangerous people and palecs, they get better results.
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Four years ago, my colleagues and I performed a systematic meta-review of antiviolence __________, summarizing the results of over 1,400 individual impact ___________. What we found, again and again, was that the strategies that were the most focused, the most targeted, the stickiest strategies, were the most successful. We saw this in criminology, in studies of policing, gang __________ and reentry. But we also saw this in public health, where targeted tertiary and secondary prevention _________ better than more generalized primary prevention. When policymakers focus on the most dangerous people and ______, they get better results.
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Original Text
Four years ago, my colleagues and I performed a systematic meta-review of antiviolence strategies, summarizing the results of over 1,400 individual impact evaluations. What we found, again and again, was that the strategies that were the most focused, the most targeted, the stickiest strategies, were the most successful. We saw this in criminology, in studies of policing, gang prevention and reentry. But we also saw this in public health, where targeted tertiary and secondary prevention performed better than more generalized primary prevention. When policymakers focus on the most dangerous people and places, they get better results.
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