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1 online resource (vii, 291 pages) |
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Criminal justice |
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Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Theoretical perspectives -- Legal perspectives -- The gang injunction -- The dimension of flexibility -- The dimension of community involvement -- Policy implications |
| Summary |
Civil gang abatement is an innovative remedy employing civil injunctions to combat public nuisance activity by gangs. This strategy has been promoted as a problem-oriented response to gang problems. Allan examines whether the process of acquiring a "gang injunction" incorporates the primary dimensions of problem-oriented responses: flexibility and community involvement. Flexibility is evident in the even distribution of initiatives among three categories - high-drug, high-crime, and high-disorder. Evidence of community involvement is weak, due to the lack of community organizations in gang-plagued neighborhoods, the low-profile nature of the initiatives, and the potential for retaliation against participants. Although the expectation for community involvement in gang injunction initiatives should be tempered, civil gang abatement is an appropriate approach to neighborhood gang problems |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Gangs -- United States.
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Organized crime -- United States.
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Injunctions -- United States
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Nuisances -- United States
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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Gangs
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Injunctions
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Nuisances
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Organized crime
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1593321031 |
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9781593321031 |
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9781593320416 |
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1593320418 |
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1280361379 |
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9781280361371 |
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9786610361373 |
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6610361371 |
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