Schools and teen violence: Black male teen sits sullenly in classroom chair listening to Black male teacher both in front of green chalkboard

School interventions offer best shot at reducing youth violence

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Black youth show up in emergency rooms with gunshot wounds or other violent injuries at an alarming and disproportionate rate in the United States. Some hospitals have violence interventions that can be effective in keeping these kids safer after they are treated, but in most cases victims are sent back into the world to continue their struggles. What if, years earlier, we could identify factors that predict which children are most likely to head down paths to violence?