Looking Beyond Suppression : Community Strategies to Reduce Gang Violence.

This book explores the policies and practices of comprehensive community efforts to reduce gang and youth violence through a specific conceptual framework, the Comprehensive Gang Model. Tailored gang reduction strategies rooted in this framework and in communities' ecological constitutions are...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gebo, Erika
Other Authors: Bond, Brenda J., Boyes-Watson, Carolyn, Braga, Anthony A., Foley, Ellen, Hureau, David M., Mcdevitt, Jack, McLaughlin, Erin, Rivers-Kustanovitz, Nicole, Ross, Laurie, Tobin, Kim, Varano, Sean P., Wolff, Russell
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2012.
Subjects:
Gangs.
Violence > Prevention.
Communities > Social aspects.
Communauté > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Communities > Social aspects
Gangs
Violence > Prevention
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Disclaimer; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction to Gang Reduction Responses; Chapter 2. Process Matters: Mobilizing Non-White Communities to Respond to Gangs; Chapter 3. Using Action Research to Support Strategic Thinking and Data-Driven Decision-Making in Gang and Youth Violence Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression in Worcester; Chapter 4. Creating and Implementing a Gang Assessment Instrument; Chapter 5. Street Outreach as an Intervention Modality for At-Risk and Gang-Involved Youth.
  • Chapter 6. The Fundamental Challenges of Defining and Measuring Retaliatory Gang ViolenceChapter 7. Strategic Problem Analysis to Guide Comprehensive Gang Violence Reduction Strategies; Chapter 8. Impact of the Shannon CSI: Challenges and Observations from a Multisite Evaluation; Chapter 9. Learning from Community Responses to Gangs; Index; About the Contributors.

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