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Author: Arnold Goldstein Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 144
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An effective gang intervention programme, Aggression Replacement Training (ART), is the subject of this book. Rearrest rates and other outcome results support the success of a project using the ART intervention approach with a series of very aggressive juvenile gangs in New York. Working with gangs as a unit, the goal was not only to teach them anger control and other skills, but to do so in such a way that their real-world reference group (the gang) was turned, as much as possible, into a prosocial rather than an antisocial support group. In addition, the book provides a thorough introduction to the history of gangs, current gang demographics, gang aggression and its etiology, as well as a review an
Author: Arnold Goldstein Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
An effective gang intervention programme, Aggression Replacement Training (ART), is the subject of this book. Rearrest rates and other outcome results support the success of a project using the ART intervention approach with a series of very aggressive juvenile gangs in New York. Working with gangs as a unit, the goal was not only to teach them anger control and other skills, but to do so in such a way that their real-world reference group (the gang) was turned, as much as possible, into a prosocial rather than an antisocial support group. In addition, the book provides a thorough introduction to the history of gangs, current gang demographics, gang aggression and its etiology, as well as a review an
Author: Ronald M. Holmes Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1439885664 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 172
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Gangs have long been a social and criminal threat to society. Introduction to Gangs in America explains how gangs are addressed as a criminal justice and public policy problem, providing a student-friendly, easily accessible, concise overview of the role, place, structure, and activities of gangs in American society. The book describes what gangs a
Author: Scott H. Decker Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118726782 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 590
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Pulling together the most salient, current issues in the field today, The Handbook of Gangs provides a significant assessment by leading scholars of key topics related to gangs, gang members, and responses to gangs. • Chapters cover a wide array of the most prominent issues in the field of gangs, written by scholars who have been leaders in developing new ways of thinking about the topics • Delivers cutting-edge reviews of the current state of research and practice and addresses where the field has been, where it is today and where it should go in the future • Includes extensive coverage of the individual theories of delinquency and provides special emphasis on policy and prevention program implications in the study of gangs • Offers a broad understanding of how other countries deal with gangs and their response to gangs, including Great Britain, Latin America, Australia and Europe • Chapters covering the legacies of four pioneers in gang research—Malcolm W. Klein, Walter B. Miller, James F. Short Jr., and Irving A. Spergel
Author: James C. Howell Publisher: SAGE Publications ISBN: 1544300255 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 393
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"[Gangs in America′s Communities] is one of the most comprehensive treatments of gangs in the marketplace. . . . I highly recommend its adoption as you will not be disappointed and, most importantly, neither will your students." —Elvira White-Lewis, Texas A&M University-Commerce Gangs in America′s Communities, Third Edition blends theory with current research to help readers identify essential features associated with youth violence and gangs, as well as apply strategies for gang control and prevention. Authors Dr. James C. Howell and Dr. Elizabeth Griffiths introduce readers to theories of gang formation, illustrate various ways of defining and classifying gangs, and discuss national trends in gang presence and gang-related violence across American cities. They also offer evidence-based strategies for positioning communities to prevent, intervene, and address gang activity. New to the Third Edition: A series of new case studies document the evolution of numerous gangs in large cities, including the community aspect, evolutionary nature, and how cities influence levels of violence. New discussions highlighting the role of social media, insights into how gangs use it to recruit members, and the response from law enforcement. Current nationwide gang trends are discussed to encourage readers to analyze and interpret the most recent statistics for which representative data is available. Updated macro and micro gang theories enable readers to explore a recent encapsulation of leading developmental models. New discussions around female gang members offer readers potentially effective programs for discouraging females from joining gangs—along with highly regarded delinquency prevention and reduction programs that have the potency to be effective in reducing gang crimes among young women. A comprehensive gang prevention, intervention, and suppression program in Multnomah County, Oregon shows how theory was successfully applied to reduce gang activity in a local community. New research on "gang structures" and their rates of crime illustrate the connections between violent crimes and the amount of violent offenders within a gang. Additional discussion of distinguishing features (e.g., typologies) of major gangs, and numerous examples of gang symbols, tattoos, and graffiti has been added to help readers identify and differentiate various types of gangs.
Author: Jacqueline Schneider Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351157787 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 566
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The task of researching gangs is fraught with difficulties, central to which are issues of definition and reliance on certain forms of data for analyses. These methodological issues have been acknowledged as limitations in most of the existing research, but they have not been explored as being potentially serious flaws contributing to the proliferation of myth, or as aggravating factors that exacerbate what is essentially a relatively uncomplicated social process. Also unclear from existing studies is the extent to which suppositions about gangs feed moral panics or contribute to the misidentification or over-specification of a problem. This captivating volume focuses on gangs, their formation, identity and behaviour with a view to developing a preventive strategy.
Author: Krzysztof Krakowski Publisher: ISBN: Category : Human behavior Languages : en Pages : 223
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The dissertation is composed of three stand-alone chapters that examine whether exposure to violence has consequences for prosocial behaviors. The first chapter investigates interethnic cooperation after ethnic conflict in southern Kyrgyzstan. I study the aftermath of the 2010 Osh riots, which saw Kyrgyz from outside the city kill over 400 Uzbeks. I implement a preregistered representative survey including incentivized measures of prosocial behavior. My causal identification strategy exploits variation in the distance between Uzbek neighborhoods and the barracks where armored military vehicles were stored. These vehicles - seized by the Kyrgyz attackers during the riot - were instrumental in orchestrating the violence. The results demonstrate that residents of damaged neighborhoods show substantially lower levels of prosocial behavior. Importantly, using a within-subjects design, I show that the reduction is the same for prosocial behavior toward in and outgroup members (coethnics and non-coethnics, respectively). I discuss several potential mechanisms linking destruction to reduced prosociality, pointing to social disintegration as the most likely channel. The second chapter investigates the effect of civil war on community cohesion in rural Colombia. I compare communities exposed to military conflict between symmetric and asymmetric competitors. While symmetric war is fought with relatively conventional means between clearly defined camps, in asymmetric war a weaker side adopts guerrilla tactics and boundaries between camps become blurred. I compare community cohesion in settlements exposed to these two types of conflict using survey data from 224 Colombian villages. The results show that symmetric war increases community cohesion measured as participation in community organizations. By contrast, asymmetric war has a detrimental impact on trusting behaviors. These results are consistent with the conjecture that asymmetric war fuels denunciation-driven violence of civilians, which creates unobservable community fractures that make individuals more prudent in relations with their neighbors. The third chapter examines the effect of gang exposure at school on youth’s social behaviors and attitudes. To identify the effect of gang exposure, I exploit plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to gang-affiliated classmates across schools in rural Colombia. Specifically, I exploit the fact that schools in rural Colombia are relatively unsegregated with respect to students’ socioeconomic backgrounds. Moreover, the distribution of youth gangs across these schools is plausibly orthogonal to the studied outcomes. The analysis of survey data from rural Colombia - subsequently replicated on data from the United States - reveals gender differences in behavioral adjustments to youth gangs. I find that girls react to male gangaffiliated classmates by intensified involvement in prosocial organizations. Boys, by contrast, adjust to male youth gangs by adopting more antisocial attitudes. These patterns are reversed in the case of exposure to female youth gangs.
Author: Jane L Wood Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000774430 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 138
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Psychology of Gang Involvement expands existing knowledge by applying psychological knowledge to gangs, including how gang members think, their mental and emotional well-being, and their perceptions of gang involvement, as well as issues relating to gang prevention and intervention strategies. This book offers readers a clearer understanding of the important role that social psychological processes play in the formation and maintenance of gangs and gang membership. It will enhance readers’ understanding of gang members’ social cognition, emotional intelligence, well-being, and mental health, as well as how these factors potentially promote and sustain individual gang involvement. Readers will discover also how these important psychological characteristics vary according to an individual’s commitment to a gang. Organized in three sections, the first focuses on issues relevant to theoretical perspectives of gang involvement. Chapters include detailed examinations of a gang member’s experiences and the implications of these for theoretical development, and considerations of the importance of social and psychological issues such as group processes and levels of commitment to gang membership to, understand and explain involvement in gangs. The second section centers on issues such as adverse childhood experiences and trauma, and examines their links to male and female gang membership as potential risk factors and outcomes of gang involvement. The section concludes by contemplating how the mental health, traumatic experiences, and involvement in violence compares between gang members and other violent men in adulthood. The final section considers current responses to gang membership by evaluating individual and group-based approaches to gang prevention and intervention strategies, and concludes with a theoretical conceptualization of how a strengths-based approach could work to reduce gang involvement. This book will be a useful text for a wide range of readers interested in, or working with gang members, including academics and students, practitioners, youth workers, clinicians, and criminal justice agents.
Author: Fabiola Salek Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231502265 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 331
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Not since the 1960s have the activities of resistance among lower- and working-class youth caused such anxiety in the international community. Yet today the dispossessed are responding to the challenges of globalization and its methods of social control. The contributors to this volume examine the struggle for identity and interdependence of these youth, their clashes with law enforcement and criminal codes, their fight for social, political, and cultural capital, and their efforts to achieve recognition and empowerment. Essays adopt the vantage point of those whose struggle for social solidarity, self-respect, and survival in criminalized or marginalized spaces. In doing so, they contextualize and humanize the seemingly senseless actions of these youths, who make visible the class contradictions, social exclusion, and rituals of psychological humiliation that permeate their everyday lives.
Author: James Diego Vigil Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 9780292711198 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 228
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Within the Mexican American barrios of Los Angeles, gang activity, including crime and violent acts, has grown and flourished. In the past, community leaders and law enforcement officials have approached the problem, not as something that needs to be understood, but only as something to be gotten rid of. Rejecting that approach, James D. Vigil asserts that only by understanding the complex factors that give birth and persistence to gangs can gang violence be ended. Drawing on many years of experience in the barrios as a youth worker, high school teacher, and researcher, Vigil identifies the elements from which gangs spring: isolation from the dominant culture, poverty, family stress and crowded households, peer pressure, and the adolescent struggle for self-identity. Using interviews with actual gang members, he reveals how the gang often functions as parent, school, and law enforcement in the absence of other role models in the gang members' lives. And he accounts for the longevity of gangs, sometimes over decades, by showing how they offer barrio youth a sense of identity and belonging nowhere else available.
Author: Arnold Goldstein
Author: Arnold Goldstein
Author: Ronald M. Holmes
Author: Scott H. Decker
Author: James C. Howell
Author: Jacqueline Schneider
Author: James C. Howell
Author: Krzysztof Krakowski
Author: Jane L Wood
Author: Fabiola Salek
Author: James Diego Vigil