Download or read book an evaluation of the illinois department of corrections gang free environment program april 1999 prepared by center for legal studies university of illinois at springfield written by and published by DIANE Publishing Inc.. This book was released on with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Evaluation of the Illinois Dept of Corrections Gang Free Environment Program written by Laura Gransky and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, Illinois has reported one of the highest concentrations of prison gang members in the nation. In response, the Illinois Dept. of Corrections (IDOC) has experimented with a number of gang mgmt. strategies. In 1996 the IDOC established the state's first experimental gang-free prison at the Taylorville Correctional Ctr., where only inmates identified as non-gang members are housed. This study documents the development, implementation, and operation of this prison. Emphasis was placed on documenting the underlying assumptions that guided the development of the gang-free environment and assessing the implementation process.
Download or read book The Brooklyn Thrill Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s written by Mariah Adin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What caused four recently bar mitzvahed middle-class youths to go on a crime spree of assault and murder in 1954? This book provides a compelling narrative retelling of the boys, their crimes, and a U.S. culture obsessed with juvenile delinquency. After ongoing months of daily headlines about gang shootouts, stomp-killings, and millions of dollars worth of vandalism, by the summer of 1954, America had had enough of juvenile delinquency. It was in this environment that 18-year-old Jack Koslow and the other three teenage members of the Brooklyn Thrill Killers committed their heinous crimes and achieved notoriety. The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s exposes the underbelly of America's mid-century, the terrible price of assimilation, the uncomfortable bedfellows of comic books and juvenile delinquency, and the dystopia already in bloom amongst American youth well before the 1960s. Readers will be engrossed and horrified by the tale of the Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang whose shocking, front-page story could easily have been copy-pasted from today's online news sites. Author Mariah Adin takes readers along for a breathtaking moment-by-moment retelling of the crime spree, the subsequent interrogations, and the dramatic courtroom showdown, interspersed with expository chapters on juvenile delinquency, America's Jewish community in the post-Holocaust period, and the anti-comics movement. This book serves to merge the history of juvenile delinquency with that of the Great Comic Book Scare, highlights the assimilation of immigrants into America's white mainstream gone wrong, and complicates our understanding of America's "Golden Age."
Download or read book Cool Calvin s No Bandanas for Me Staying Gang Free written by Ralph Burgess and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Calvin's friend, Rodney, joins a gang after his mother and father divorces. Calvin reminds him of others from their community who have taken that path and failed. He encourages him to lean on the shoulders of his "human resources" such as his teacher, Guidance Counselor and Principal.
Download or read book Gang Mom written by Fred Rosen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking true story of Mary Thompson, a Eugene, Oregon, anti-gang activist who secretly ran her own murderous mob of teenagers—including her own son. Aaron Iturra was just eighteen years old when he was found dead in the bedroom of the Eugene, Oregon, home he shared with his mother and sister. Investigating the crime, Detective Jim Michaud found evidence pointing to an unlikely suspect: Mary Louise Thompson, also known as Gang Mom. Once a biker chick and police informer, she had become a locally famous anti-gang activist. Michaud soon learned Thompson was a modern-day Fagin who was running her own gang of juveniles—including her own son, Beau—which preyed on the unsuspecting city, dealing dope and burglarizing homes. When Thompson had found out Iturra planned to testify against Beau in a felony case, she put out a hit on him.
Download or read book The American Street Gang written by Malcolm W. Klein and published by Studies in Crime and Public Policy. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About street gangs in the United States.
Download or read book Gang Injunctions and Abatement written by Matthew D. O'Deane and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As gang violence continues to rise across the country and the world, police departments, prosecutors, and community members are seeking new methods to reduce the spread of gang-related criminal activity. Civil gang injunctions have become a growing feature of crime control programs in several states across the nation. Gang Injunctions and Abatement
Download or read book Street Gang Patterns and Policies written by Malcolm W. Klein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a crucial update and critical examination of our understanding of gangs and major gang-control programs across the nation. Dispelling the long-standing assumptions that the public, the media, and law enforcement have about street gangs, it presents a comprehensive overview of how gangs are organized and structured.
Download or read book Gangs in America s Communities written by James C. Howell and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and theoretically-grounded approach to gangs and youth violence. It covers significant topics of interest to gang scholars and practitioners and, in doing so, serves to prepare students to work with gang members, develop and manage anti-gang programs, or engage in scholarly endeavors. The book introduces readers to the foundations of gang studies through the origins of gangs, definitions and categories of youth/street gangs (and the distinctions between these arguably different types), national and international trends, distinguishing features of serious street gangs, what works with gangs and what doesn’t, and myths and realities. James Howell’s extensive experience in this area allows access to the most authoritative national survey data on gang trends, providing insight into topics such as female gangs, migration of gang members, small-town gangs versus the major adult gangs in large cities, gang homicides and drug trafficking.
Download or read book The Growth of Youth Gang Problems in the United States 1970 98 written by Walter Benson Miller and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Best Practices to Address Community Gang Problems written by J. Robert Flores and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides guidance for communities that are considering how best to address a youth gang problem that already exists or threatens to become a reality. The guidance is based on the Model developed through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). This Report describes the research that produced the Model, notes essential findings from evaluations of several programs demonstrating the Model in a variety of environments, and outlines ¿best practices¿ obtained from practitioners with years of experience in planning, implementing, and overseeing the Model in their communities. Includes specific practices that work best in a step-by-step planning and implementation process for communities using the Model. Illus.
Download or read book Alien Gang Removal Act of 2005 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Street Gang Enforcement written by Edward Connors and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents strategies to enhance prosecution of gang-related crimes, focusing exclusively on enforcement and prosecution strategies against urban street gangs. Includes a step-by-step guide for designing and implementing a program based on the Model Strategies for Urban Street Enforcement, a demonstration program designed to establish model approaches to prevent and suppress gang violence. Contents: key elements of the gang suppression prototype, planning and analysis, gang info. and intelligence systems, gang suppression operations and tactics, interagency cooperation and collaboration, legal issues, and process and impact evaluation.
Download or read book Psychology of Gang Involvement written by Jane L Wood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Findings from the Evaluation of OJJDP s Gang Reduction Program written by Meagan Cahill and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Perspectives on Youth Gang Behavior Violence and Weapons Use written by Harding, Simon and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth violence has become a concern as gangs become a popular option for urban children and teenagers and weapons use among young populations becomes more prevalent. Exploring the psychological motivations and foundations upon which such violence is developed and cultivated can assist in better understanding the modern dilemma of violence, weapons use, and gang behavior among children, teenagers, and young adults. Global Perspectives on Youth Gang Behavior, Violence, and Weapons Use reconsiders the traditional understandings of youth violence in various forms, such as gang activities, criminal behavior, and weapons use. Focusing on the psychosocial elements of violence among children, teenagers, and young adults, this timely publication is ideally designed for use by policy makers and government executives, professionals, educators, and graduate-level students involved in psychology, criminology, social work, and criminal justice studies.
Download or read book National Youth Gang Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
