Policing gangs and youth violence
By: edited by Scott H. Decker.
Contributors: Decker, Scott H.
Series: The Wadsworth contemporary issues in crime and justice series; Contemporary issues in crime and justice series.
Publisher: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Belmont, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Community policing -- United States.; Gangs -- United States.; Gang prevention -- United States.; Crime prevention -- United States.; Juvenile delinquents -- United States.; Youth and violence -- United States -- Prevention.
Description: Presented in this book are current practices within policing and juvenile justice (focusing on gangs), which utilize the community-policing model. By looking at specific strategies and their efficacy, the authors attempt to combat a major perceived problem with community policing; that the methodology of community policing can be subjective and nebulous, using ill-defined and misinterpreted practices. This book shows what is working for agencies across the country and how these "best practices" can be employed. Includes a focus on Boston as a model for gang policing strategies, other chapters are set in different regions of the United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gangs, community policing, and problem solving -- Jack R. Greene; title: Policing gangs in an era of community policing -- Vincent J. Webb, Charles M. Katz; title: Boston's Youth Violence Prevention Program : a comprehensive community-wide approach -- Jack McDevitt, Anthony Braga, Dana Nurge, Michael Buerger; title: Problem solving to reduce gang and drug-related violence in Indianapolis -- Edmund F. McGarrell, Steven Chermak; title: From Boston to Boyle Heights : the process and prospects of a "pulling levers" strategy in a Los Angeles barrio -- George Tita, K. Jack Riley, Peter Greenwood; title: Evaluating nuisance abatement at gang and drug houses in Chicago -- James R. "Chip" Coldren, Jr., Daniel F. Higgins; title: Beyond curfews and crackdowns : an overview of the Mountlake Terrace Neutral Zone-AmeriCorps Program -- Quint C. Thurman, David G. Mueller; title: Suppression without prevention, prevention without suppression : gang intervention in St. Louis -- Scott H. Decker, G. David Curry; title: The Anti-Gang Initiative in Detroit : an aggressive enforcement approach to gangs -- Timothy S. Bynum, Sean P. Varano; title: For the sake of the neighborhood? : civil gang injunctions as a gang intervention tool in Southern California -- Cheryl L. Maxson, Karen Hennigan, David C. Sloane; title: Gang suppression through saturation patrol and aggressive curfew and truancy enforcement : a quasi-experimental test of the Dallas Anti-Gang Initiative -- Eric J. Fritsch, Tory J. Caeti, Robert W. Taylor; title: Policing gangs and youth violence : where do we stand, where do we go from here? -- Scott H. Decker.