Jens Ludwig is the Edwin A. & Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, the Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, and co-director of the ...

Jens Ludwig is Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, and the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy. He helped found the Crime Lab 10 years ago to ...

Gun violence is the most important challenge facing the city of Chicago. Unfortunately, Chicago—like many U.S. cities—is facing severe budget challenges as a result of continuing downtown struggles on ...

One of the biggest changes in American society the past 50 years has been growing income inequality. That has, understandably, gotten an enormous amount of attention. But alongside that trend has been ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Chicago saw its number of shootings and murders dip at the ...

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Everyone is worried about Chicago’s current gun violence crisis. I am too. But I also worry we’re missing the next gun violence crisis developing right in front of us, as a result of unresolved ...

Homicides have surged by 60% in Chicago since 2019. Why? The search for answers has involved a lot of finger-pointing. This is partly because in Chicago, unlike in many U.S. cities, responsibility for ...

America has a fundamental misunderstanding of what drives gun violence, and it’s prevented us from solving the problem. That’s according to the new book Unforgiving Places, by University of Chicago ...

Gun violence in Chicago is drawing attention across the nation and even around the globe. Our homicide rate rose by 58 percent from 2015 to 2016. Such a large increase in just one year for a big ...

While gun violence declined last year, a closer look at the data reveals a striking and surprising trend. While the total number of shootings is going down, the lethality of shootings — the odds of ...

While the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical need for swift action in tackling public health crises, we have been sluggish in applying this lesson to address the escalating domestic violence ...