N.Y. Times Author Looking for Ideas to Reduce Youth VIolence

Steven Levitt - author of "Freakonomics" - posted a blog entry on his N.Y. Times site looking for out-of-the-box suggestions for reducing youth violence (http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/looking-to-blog-readers-for-good-ideas-to-reduce-teen-shootings/). He was motivated by the recent beating death of a teenager in Chicago. Many of the posted suggestions fall into the harsher-punishment bucket which, as most peacebuilders recognize, is not very useful for long-term health of the community. I posted some of my own suggestions, including teaching mediation and conflict resolution K-12 and asking teenagers what they would need to help them keep out of trouble. What ideas would you suggest?