Why System Dynamics?
Studying why violence happens among youth using system dynamics provides a framework and approach that has potential to shed light on the youth violence issue set. This approach provides a common language to get people on the same page around what is happening and why it’s happening and is integrative in the sense that it enables multiple perspectives to be incorporated into a “map” of the system. It’s also testable—through the use of a computer, it’s possible to simulate the dynamics of the youth violence system, and to explore approaches that might improve things over time.
