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Title:
Youth gangs and community intervention : research, practice, and evidence / edited by Robert J. Chaskin.
Publisher:
Columbia University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
xviii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Gang prevention--United States--Citizen participation.
Gangs--United States.
Gang members--Rehabilitation--United States.
Community organization--United States.
Other Authors:
Chaskin, Robert J.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Chicago School: a context for youth intervention research and development / Robert J. Chaskin -- The evolution of gang policy: balancing intervention and suppression / George E. Tita, Andrew Papachristos -- Lessons learned from gang program evaluations: prevention, intervention, suppression, and comprehensive community approaches / James C. Howell -- An examination of the role of CeaseFire, the Chicago police, Project Safe Neighborhoods, and displacement in the reduction in homicide in Chicago in 2004 / Charlie Ransford ... [et al.] -- From knowledge to response and back again: theory and evaluation in responding to gangs / G. David Curry -- Promoting research integrity in community-based intervention research / James F. Short, Jr., Lorine A. Hughes -- Multiple marginality and human development: applying research insights for gang prevention and intervention / James Diego Vigil -- A community youth development approach to gang control programs / Jeffrey A. Butts, Caterina Gouvis Roman -- Taking criminology seriously: narratives, norms, networks, and common ground / David M. Kennedy -- Community gang programs: theory, models, and effectiveness / Irving A. Spergel.
ISBN:
0231519311 (ebook)
9780231519311 (ebook)
023114685X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780231146852 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0231146841 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231146845 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2009040101
Locations:
HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

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