Irving A. Spergel

Reducing Youth Gang Violence

The Little Village Gang Project in Chicago

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 shows the successes and failures at each level: individual-youth, gang-as-unit, community, and policy development. This is a valuable model and methodology for a comprehensive approach to gang prevention and intervention which will be an important reference for policy makers, criminologists, gang researchers and community developers.

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Produktdetails

• Violence Prevention and Policy
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780759109995
• ISBN-10: 0759109990
• Artikelnr.: 21273296

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 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 Part
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

Rezensionen

Irving Spergel's book on the Little Village application of the Comprehensive Community gang intervention model is unique as an example of applied research and effective programmatic response. Spergel has created a program to ameliorate community gang problems that is well worth a look by policy makers, gang responders, and criminological theorists. It is the best and most tested reaction to gang problems available today. -- G. David Curry, University of Missouri, St. Louis