Youth Gangs and Community Intervention: Research, Practice, and Evidence

by Robert Chaskin

Book Overview

Although a range of program and policy responses to youth gangs exist, most are largely based on suppression, implemented by the police or other criminal justice agencies. Less attention and fewer resources have been directed to prevention and intervention strategies that draw on the participation of community organizations, schools, and social service agencies in the neighborhoods in which gangs operate. Also underemphasized is the importance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023114685X
• ISBN13: 9780231146852
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher