TOPIC: Gangs

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Introductory Packet

• Violence Prevention and Safe Schools

Newsletter

• Enhancing Motivation for Interpersonal Problem Solving

Policy & Practice Analysis

• Youth Gangs and Schools

Facts/Statistics

• Gang Problems and Gang Programs in a National Sample of Schools
• Highlights of the 1999 National Youth Gang Survey
• Highlights of the 2000 National Youth Gang Survey
• Highlights of the 2002-2003 National Youth Gang Surveys, 2 page fact sheet
• Highlights of the 2004 National Youth Gang Survey (2006) A. Egley & C. Ritz
• National Youth Gang Survey,1991-2000

General

• Bibliography on Gangs
• Board Policy - Gang and Gang Related Activities
• Comprehensive Gang Model
• Gang Activity
• Gang Awareness: Memphis Police Department
• Gangs and At-Risk Kids
• Gangs: Frequently Asked Questions
• Latino High School Students' Perception of Gang and Crews
• "Modern-Day Youth Gangs" (2002) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Review the proliferation of gangs into smaller cities, towns, suburbs and rural communities and how they differ from inner-city grants
• New thinking can defeat gang violence: The proven effectiveness of public health strategies to eradicate the breeding grounds of crime. (2003) G. Yates. Choices for Youth
• Publications Recommended by the Youth Gang Consortium
• Students' Reports of Gangs at School
• Youth Gang Bibliography
• Youth Gangs: An Overview
• Youth Gangs in Schools

Guides

• A Parent's Guide for Preventing Gangs
• Addressing Community Gang Problems: A Practical Guide
• Addressing Community Gang Problems Assessment Guide
• Broader urban Involvement and Leadership Development Program (BUILD)
• Addressing Community Gang Problems Implementation Manual
• Boys and Girls Club Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach
• Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT)
• Gang Resistance is Paramount
• Preventing Adolescent Gang Involvement
• School Gang Training: School Gang Prevention and Intervention
• Supporting Adolescents with Guidance and Employment (SAGE)
• Strategic risk-based response to youth gangs (2004)
• "Targeted Outreach: Boys & Girls Clubs of America's Approach to Gang Prevention and Intervention" (2002)
• Youth Gang Programs and Strategies
• Youth Gangs: Going Beyond the Myths to Address a Critical Problem

Policy

• Gangs and Schools
• Youth Gang Trafficking and Homicide: Policy and Program Implications

Studies

• Comparing the Criminal Behavior of Gang Members and At-Risk Youths
• Early Precursors of Gang membership: A Study of Seattle Youth
• Female Gangs: A Focus on Research
• Gangs in Schools
• Positive Individual and Social Behavior among Gang and Nongang African American Male Adolescents

Support

• "OJJDP's Gang reduction program" (2003)
• National Youth Gang Center

• Handbook on Gangs in Schools: Strategies to Reduce Gang Related Activities
• Breaking Up is Hard To Do: Gang Violence
• Schools Respond to Gangs and Violence
• The Gang Intervention Handbook
• Gang Suppression and Intervention: Community Models

Related Agencies and Websites

• Project No Gangs
• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
• http://www.urban.org/rl.cfm?ID=411692
• Gang Resistance, Education and Training Program  (G.R.E.A.T.)
• The National Alliance of Gang Investigators Associations (NAGIA)
• National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
• National Youth Gang Center (NYGC)
• Mothers Against Gang Wars

Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained Through Libraries

• A Pluralistic Approach to Gang Prevention: The Long Beach Model.   By, S. Blancarte & B.J. Azeka (April, 1992). The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Vol. 63, pg. 31-35.
• Gang Behavior in Schools: Reality or Myth.  By, C.P. Parks (1995). Educational Psychology Review, Vol. 7, pp. 41-68.
• Gangs in schools: An introduction to the problem and interventions. Griffen, M., Meacham, M. (2002). Annals of the American Psychotherapy Assn, 5, 15-18.
• I am somebody: Gang membership.   By, Burnham, S., Arnold, M. In Capuzzi, D & Gross, D. R. (EDs). (2000). Youth risk: A prevention resource for counselors, teachers, and parents (3rd ed.) (pp. 353-384). Alexandria, VA, US: American Counseling Association. xvii, 526 pp.
• Mission Impossible? Social Work Practices with Black Urban Youth Gangs.  By, J. Fox (1985). Social Work, (Jan-Feb), pp. 25-31.
• Positive individual and social behavior among gang and nongang African American male adolescents. Taylor, C. S., Lerner, R. M., von Eye, A., Bobek, D. L., Balsano, A. B., Dowling, E., Anderson, P. M. (2003). Journal of Adolescent Research, 18, 496-522.
• Predicting Early Adolescent Gang Involvement From Middle School Adaptation. Dishion, T. J., Nelson, S. E., Yasui, M. (2005). Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 34, 62-73.
• Reason to Hope: A Psychosocial Perspective on Violence and Youth.   By, L.D. Eron, J.H. Gentry, & P. Schlegel (Eds. 1994). American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
• The California School of Professional Psychology handbook of juvenile forensic psychology. Levine, S., Montoya, G. (2002). San Francisco, CA, US: Jossey-Bass. 678.
• The Role of Juvenile Gangs in Facilitating Delinquent Behavior.  By, T.P. Thornberry, M.D. Krohn, A.J. Lizotte, & D. Chard-Wierschem (1993). Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Vol. 30, pp. 55-87.
• Using Organizational Development with Juvenile Gangs.  By, S. Stepakoff (1987). Organizational Development Journal, Vol. 5, 70-75.
• Youth gangs and definitional issues: When is a gang a gang, and why does it matter? Esbensen, F., Winfree, L. T. Jr., He, N., Taylor, T. J. (2001). Crime & Delinquency, 47, 105-130.
• Youth gangs, schools, and conflict resolution (dissertation). By Barbara Silver. ProQuest/UMI (October 31, 2006)

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