Description: Further DetailsTitle: Youth Gangs and Community InterventionCondition: NewSubtitle: Research, Practice, and EvidenceISBN-10: 0231146841EAN: 9780231146845ISBN: 9780231146845Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/11/2010Description: Although a range of program and policy responses to youth gangs exist, most are largely based on suppression, implemented by the police or other criminal justice agencies. Less attention and fewer resources have been directed to prevention and intervention strategies that draw on the participation of community organizations, schools, and social service agencies in the neighborhoods in which gangs operate. Also underemphasized is the importance of integrating such approaches at the local level. In this volume, leading researchers discuss effective intervention among youth gangs, focusing on the ideas behind, approaches to, and evidence about the effectiveness of community-based, youth gang interventions. Treating community as a crucial unit of analysis and action, these essays reorient our understanding of gangs and the measures undertaken to defeat them. They emphasize the importance of community, both as a context that shapes opportunity and as a resource that promotes positive youth engagement.Covering key themes and debates, this book explores the role of social capital and collective efficacy in informing youth gang intervention and evaluation, the importance of focusing on youth development within the context of community opportunities and pressures, and the possibilities of better linking research, policy, and practice when responding to youth gangs, among other critical issues.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmContributor: Robert Chaskin (Edited by)Author: Robert ChaskinGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Youth Gangs and Community Intervention
Title: Youth Gangs and Community Intervention
Subtitle: Research, Practice, and Evidence
ISBN-10: 0231146841
EAN: 9780231146845
ISBN: 9780231146845
Release Date: 03/11/2010
Release Year: 2010
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Robert Chaskin (Edited by)
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Name: Youth Gangs and Community Intervention : Research, Practice, and Evidence
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Criminal Law / General, Violence in Society, Criminology
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 0.1 in
Item Weight: 18 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Robert Chaskin
Item Length: 0.9 in
Subject Area: Law, Social Science
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
