He took a close look at an 80-year-old study that led to a shocking result
In 1978, a researcher made a shocking discovery about a program designed to prevent crime among young people in urban areas: It had achieved the opposite result. Now, Northeastern professor Brandon Welsh has found that the people who received counseling and mentoring lived just as long as those who did not, and were no more likely to die of disease, drug abuse, or homicide.
