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

Author: Spergel, Irving A.
Published: Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, [2007]
Copyright Date: ©2007
Physical Description: xviii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Series

Violence prevention and policy series

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.

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ISBN

0759109982 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780759109988 (cloth : alk. paper)
0759109990 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780759109995 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

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

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