| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 270 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The Chicago School: a context for youth intervention research and development / Robert J. Chaskin -- The evolution of gang policy: balancing intervention and suppression / George E. Tita, Andrew Papachristos -- Lessons learned from gang program evaluations: prevention, intervention, suppression, and comprehensive community approaches / James C. Howell -- An examination of the role of CeaseFire, the Chicago police, Project Safe Neighborhoods, and displacement in the reduction in homicide in Chicago in 2004 / Charlie Ransford [and others] -- From knowledge to response and back again: theory and evaluation in responding to gangs / G. David Curry -- Promoting research integrity in community-based intervention research / James F. Short, Jr., Lorine A. Hughes -- Multiple marginality and human development: applying research insights for gang prevention and intervention / James Diego Vigil -- A community youth development approach to gang control programs / Jeffrey A. Butts, Caterina Gouvis Roman -- Taking criminology seriously: narratives, norms, networks, and common ground / David M. Kennedy -- Community gang programs: theory, models, and effectiveness / Irving A. Spergel |
| Summary |
Although a range of program and policy responses to youth gangs exist, most are largely based on suppression, implemented by the police or other criminal justice agencies. Less attention and fewer resources have been directed to prevention and intervention strategies that draw on the participation of community organizations, schools, and social service agencies in the neighborhoods in which gangs operate. Also underemphasized is the importance of integrating such approaches at the local level. In this volume, leading researchers discuss effective intervention among youth gangs, focusing on the ideas behind, approaches to, and evidence about the effectiveness of community-based, youth gang interventions. Treating community as a crucial unit of analysis and action, these essays reorient our understanding of gangs and the measures undertaken to defeat them. They emphasize the importance of community, both as a context that shapes opportunity and as a resource that promotes positive youth engagement. Covering key themes and debates, this book explores the role of social capital and collective efficacy in informing youth gang intervention and evaluation, the importance of focusing on youth development within the context of community opportunities and pressures, and the possibilities of better linking research, policy, and practice when responding to youth gangs, among other critical issues |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Gang prevention -- United States -- Citizen participation
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Gangs -- United States.
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Gang members -- Rehabilitation -- United States
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Community organization -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Community organization
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Gang members -- Rehabilitation
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Gang prevention -- Citizen participation
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Gangs
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Empirische Sozialforschung
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Gemeinde
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Intervention
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Jugendbande
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United States
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chaskin, Robert J., editor.
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| LC no. |
2009040101 |
| ISBN |
9780231519311 |
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0231519311 |
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