@conference {1499315,
	title = {Mobile Game Theory with Street Gangs},
	booktitle = {The 4th Workshop on Data Science for Social Good at ECML-PKDD, 2019},
	year = {2019},
	abstract = {Gang violence remains a persistent public safety problemin Los Angeles. Gang interventionists and community organizers areturning to proactive peacekeeping, a process of addressing the underlying structures that cause young people to join gangs such as pervasive poverty and marginalization. Given the increasing prevalence anddecreasing cost of mobile technology, there may be opportunities for interventionists to employ technological solutions in their work. However,before such solutions can be deployed, it is necessary to have accuratemodels of the target users{\textemdash}in this case, gang-involved youth. Of particular interest with regard proactive peacekeeping is their propensity forcooperation. However, given the unique circumstances surrounding thelives of gang-involved youth, traditional laboratory-based experimentsmeasuring cooperation are infeasible. In this paper, we present a novelmethod of collecting experimental data from gang-involved youth in theLos Angeles area. We design a mobile application based on the classic Prisoner{\textquoteright}s Dilemma model, which has been used to collect almost3000 data points on cooperation from more than 20 participants. Wepresent initial results that show despite their unique life circumstancesgang-involved youth cooperate at roughly the same rate as university students in classic studies of cooperation. We conclude by addressing theimplications of this result for future work and proactive peacekeepingendeavors},
	author = {Cooney, Sarah and Wendy Gomez and Kai Wang and Leap, Jorja and P. Jefferey Brantingham and Tambe, Milind}
}
