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Title Youth gangs and community intervention [electronic resource] : research, practice, and evidence / edited by Robert J. Chaskin.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, c2010.

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Description xviii, 270 p. : ill.
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Gang prevention -- United States -- Citizen participation.
Gangs -- United States.
Gang members -- Rehabilitation -- United States.
Community organization -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Chaskin, Robert J.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780231146845 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231146841 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231146852 (pbk. : alk. paper)
023114685X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780231519311 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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