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Reducing Youth Gang Violence: The Little Village Gang Project in Chicago
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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Reducing Youth Gang Violence: The Little Village Gang Project in Chicago
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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Reducing Youth Gang Violence: The Little Village Gang Project in Chicago

Reducing Youth Gang Violence: The Little Village Gang Project in Chicago

by Irving A. Spergel
Reducing Youth Gang Violence: The Little Village Gang Project in Chicago
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Reducing Youth Gang Violence: The Little Village Gang Project in Chicago

Reducing Youth Gang Violence: The Little Village Gang Project in Chicago

by Irving A. Spergel

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780759113893
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Publication date: 03/01/2007
Series: Violence Prevention and Policy
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 400
File size: 9 MB

About the Author

Irving A. Spergel is George Herbert Jones Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in Social Work with a minor in Sociology at Columbia University in 1960, and has worked for five decades on gang problems in the U.S. He is the author of The Youth Gang Problem: A Community Approach.

Table of Contents


Chapter 1 Project Background and Program Strategies
Chapter 2 Gang Problems
Chapter 3 Project Formation
Chapter 4 Entering the Field
Chapter 5 Team Development
Chapter 6 Social Intervention: The Outreach Youth Worker
Chapter 7 Suppression/Social Control
Chapter 8 Community Mobilization
Chapter 9 Evaluation: Program Analysis and Project Outcome
Chapter 10 The Project Evaluation Model
Chapter 11 Changes in Social Context of Program Youth
Chapter 12 Life Course Factors Related to Self-Reported Offense/Arrest Charges
Chapter 13 Project-Worker Contacts, Services and Strategies
Chapter 14 Arrest Changes: Program and Comparison Youth
Chapter 15 Arrest Changes for Different Types of Gang Youth
Chapter 16 Services and Outcome
Chapter 17 Gang and Community Crime Change
Chapter 18 Project Termination 19 Summary 20 References
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