Reducing youth gang violence
Subtitle: the Little Village Gang Project in Chicago
By: Irving A. Spergel.
Series: Violence prevention and policy series
Publisher: AltaMira Press; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780759109988; 9780759109995
Subjects: Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project (Chicago, Ill.); Gang prevention -- Illinois -- Chicago.; Gang prevention -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Citizen participation.; Gang members -- Rehabilitation -- Illinois -- Chicago.; Juvenile delinquents -- Services for -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.363-369) and index.
Table of contents: title: Gang programs; title: Project formation; title: Entering the field; title: Team development; title: Social intervention : the outreach youth worker; title: Suppression/social control; title: Community mobilization; title: The project evaluation model; title: Changes in social context of program youth; title: Life course factors related to self-reported offense/arrest changes; title: Project-worker contacts, services, and strategies; title: Arrest changes : program and comparison youth; title: Arrest changes for different types of gang youth; title: Services and outcome; title: Gang and community crime change; title: Project termination; title: Summary.