Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence by Ludwig, Jens
Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence by Ludwig, Jens

Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence

What if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong? In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to...
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Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence by Ludwig, Jens

Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence

CHF 36.37
Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence by Ludwig, Jens

Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence

CHF 36.37
Author: Jens Ludwig
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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What if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong?

In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen, and is there anything we can do about it? Almost two decades later, the answers aren't what he expected. Unforgiving Places is Ludwig's revelatory portrait of gun violence in America's most famously maligned city.

Disproving the popular narrative that shootings are the calculated acts of malicious or desperate people, Ludwig shows how most shootings actually grow out of a more fleeting source: interpersonal conflict, especially arguments. By examining why some arguments turn tragic while others don't, Ludwig shows gun violence to be more circumstantial--and more solvable--than our traditional approaches lead us to believe.

Drawing on decades of research and Ludwig's immersive fieldwork in Chicago, including "countless hours spent in schools, parks, playgrounds, housing developments, courtrooms, jails, police stations, police cars, and lots and lots of McDonald'ses," Unforgiving Places is a breakthrough work at the cutting edge of behavioral economics. As Ludwig shows, progress on gun violence doesn't require America to solve every other social problem first; it only requires that we find ways to intervene in the places and the ten-minute windows where human behaviors predictably go haywire.


Author: Jens Ludwig
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 04/21/2025
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
ISBN: 9780226828138

About the Author
Jens Ludwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. He is the Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago's Crime Lab, codirector of the National Bureau of Economic Research's working group on the economics of crime, elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, and a member of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies of Science. His work has been featured in leading peer-reviewed scientific publications as well as national media like the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, NPR, and PBS NewsHour, among other outlets.

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