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Reducing Youth Gang Violence
The Little Village Gang Project in Chicago
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2007
Summary
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.
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Edition
1/2007
Copyright Year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-7591-0998-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7591-1389-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
383
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Illustrations No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 Gang Programs No access
2 Project Formation No access
3 Entering the Field No access
4 Team Development No access
5 Social Intervention: The Outreach Youth Worker No access
6 Suppression and Social Control No access
7 Community Mobilization No access
8 The Project Evaluation Model No access
9 Changes in Social Context of Program Youth No access
10 Life-Course Factors Related to Self-Reported Offense and Arrest Changes No access
11 Project-Worker Contacts, Services, and Strategies No access
12 Arrest Changes for Program and Comparison Youth No access
13 Arrest Changes for Different Types of Gang Youth No access
14 Services and Outcome No access
15 Gang and Community Crime Change No access
16 Project Termination No access
17 Summary No access
References No access Pages 363 - 370
Index No access Pages 371 - 380
About the Author No access Pages 381 - 383
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