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In this book, Irving Spergel details the efforts of his Chicago youth gang project, a comprehensive, community-based model designed to reduce gang problems, including violence and illegal drug activity. He offers an in-depth description of the Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project, revealing the successes and failures of intervention at each level: individual youths, the gang itself, and the community at large. Spergel relates how a coalition of criminal justice, neighborhood, and academic organizations_along with a team of tactical officers, probation officers, former gang leaders, and a neighborhood organization_developed strategies for dealing with hardcore violent male youths from two gangs: the Latin Kings and Two Six. This well-known project has become the model for a series of national initiatives. Policymakers, criminologists, and gang researchers will find this model valuable for assessing gang programs and reducing gang violence.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Gang Problems
Chapter 3 Project Formation
Chapter 4 Entering the Field
Chapter 5 Team Development
Chapter 6 Social Intervention: The Outreach Youth Worker
Chapter 7 Suppression/Social Control
Chapter 8 Community Mobilization
Part 9 Evaluation: Program Analysis and Project Outcome
Chapter 10 The Project Evaluation Model
Chapter 11 Changes in Social Context of Program Youth
Chapter 12 Life Course Factors Related to Self-Reported Offense/Arrest Charges
Chapter 13 Project-Worker Contacts, Services and Strategies
Chapter 14 Arrest Changes: Program and Comparison Youth
Chapter 15 Arrest Changes for Different Types of Gang Youth
Chapter 16 Services and Outcome
Chapter 17 Gang and Community Crime Change
Chapter 18 Project Termination
19 Summary
20 References
Product details
| Published | Mar 01 2007 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 400 |
| ISBN | 9780759109988 |
| Imprint | AltaMira Press |
| Dimensions | 10 x 6 inches |
| Series | Violence Prevention and Policy |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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