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That's Science Friday, wherever you get your podcasts. Dangerous neighborhoods are a weird phenomenon.

Some of us assume shootings happen because those places are populated by bad people

who don't care about their communities and don't fear getting caught by police.

Others of us think the problem is the result of social conditions

that prime residents for lives of poverty,

discrimination, and despair.

The thing is, we've tried cracking down hard

on violent places,

and we've tried fixing them

by setting up programs to help with employment

and essential expenses,

and neither approach has been the

silver bullet reformers hoped for. Could it be, we're all misunderstanding the nature of the

problem? From KERA in Dallas, this is think. I'm Chris Boyd. My guest has studied violent

neighborhoods through the lens of his field, behavioral economics,

and come up with a novel hypothesis that points to new ideas for making scary places safer.

And he can illustrate that through the example of two economically and demographically similar neighborhoods

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