TOPIC: Gangs

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Introductory Packet

• Violence Prevention and Safe Schools

Policy & Practice Analysis

• Youth Gangs and Schools

Fact & Information Resources

• About Youth Gangs

Facts/Statistics
• Gang Problems and Gang Programs in a National Sample of Schools
• Highlights of the 2007 National Youth Gang Survey
• Highlights of the 2008 National Youth Gang Survey

General
• Bibliography on Gangs
• Comprehensive Gang Model Program
• Gangs and At-Risk Kids
• Gang Awareness: Memphis Police Department
• Latino High School Students' Perception of Gang and Crews
• Modern-Day Youth Gangs
• New Thinking Can Help Defeat Gang Violence
• Publications Recommended by the Youth Gang Consortium
• Students' Reports of Gangs at School
• Youth Gangs: An Overview
• Youth Gang Bibliography
• Youth Gangs in Schools

Guides
• Addressing Community Gang Problems: A Practical Guide
• Addressing Community Gang Problems Implementation Manual
• Approach to Gang Prevention and Intervention
• A Guide to Assessing Your Community’s Youth Gang Problem
• Preventing Adolescent Gang Involvement
• School Gang Training: School Gang Prevention and Intervention
• Strategic risk-based response to youth gangs
• Youth Gang Programs and Strategies

Policy
• Youth Gang Trafficking and Homicide: Policy and Program Implications

Studies
• Comparing the Criminal Behavior of Gang Members and At-Risk Youths
• Early Precursors of Gang membership: A Study of Seattle Youth
• Female Gangs: A Focus on Research
• Gangs in Schools
• Gangs Prevention: An Overview of Research and Programs
• Positive Individual and Social Behavior among Gang and Nongang African American Male Adolescents

Support
• OJJDP's Gang reduction program
• National Youth Gang Center

• Best Practices to Address Community Gang Problems>s<
• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
• Gang Resistance, Education and Training Program
• The National Alliance of Gang Investigators Associations
• National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• National Youth Gang Center

• Gangs and School Violence in the K-12 Classrooms and the Community. Hernandez, L. (2007). Trafford Publishing.
• Gangs in Schools: An Introduction to the Problem and Interventions. Griffen, M., Meacham, M. (2002). Annals of the American Psychotherapy Assn, 5, p. 15-18.
• I am Somebody: Gang Membership. By, Burnham, S., Arnold, M. In Capuzzi, D & Gross, D. R. (EDs). (2000). Youth risk: A prevention resource for counselors, teachers, and parents (3rd ed.) (pp. 353-384). Alexandria, VA, US: American Counseling Association. xvii, p. 526
• Positive Individual and Social Behavior among Gang and Nongang African American Male Adolescents. Taylor, C. S., Lerner, R. M., von Eye, A., Bobek, D. L., Balsano, A. B., Dowling, E., Anderson, P. M. (2003). Journal of Adolescent Research, 18, p. 496-522.
• Predicting Early Adolescent Gang Involvement From Middle School Adaptation. Dishion, T. J., Nelson, S. E., Yasui, M. (2005). Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 34, p. 62-73.
• Youth Gangs and Definitional Issues: When is a Gang a Gang, and Why Does it Matter?. Esbensen, F., Winfree, L. T. Jr., He, N., Taylor, T. J. (2001). Crime & Delinquency, 47, p. 105-130.
• Youth Violence: Sex and Race Differences in Offending, Victimization, and Gang Membership. By Esbensen, F., Peterson, D., Taylor, T.J., & Freng, A. (2011). Temple University Press.

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