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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
