Reducing youth gang violence : the Little Village Gang Project in Chicago / Irving A. Spergel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spergel, Irving A.

Series:

Violence prevention and policy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project (Chicago, Ill.).

Gang prevention--Illinois--Chicago.

Gang prevention.

Gang prevention--Illinois--Chicago--Citizen participation.

Gang members--Rehabilitation--Illinois--Chicago.

Gang members.

Juvenile delinquents--Services for--Illinois--Chicago.

Juvenile delinquents.

Juvenile delinquents--Services for.

Gang members--Rehabilitation.

Political participation.

Illinois--Chicago.

Physical Description:

xviii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, [2007]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Gang programs

Project formation

Entering the field

Team development

Social intervention : the outreach youth worker

Suppression and social control

Community mobilization

The project evaluation model

Changes in social context of program youth

Life-course factors related to self-reported offense and arrest changes

Project-worker contacts, services, and strategies

Arrest changes for program and comparison youth

Arrest changes for different types of gang youth

Services and outcome

Gang and community crime change

Project termination

Summary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-369) and index.

ISBN:

0759109982

9780759109988

0759109990

9780759109995

OCLC:

70335156