Irving A. Spergel

Reducing Youth Gang Violence

The Little Village Gang Project in Chicago

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In this book, Irving Spergel details the efforts of his Chicago youth gang project, a comprehensive, community-based model designed to reduce gang problems, including violence and illegal drug activity. He offers an in-depth description of the Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project, revealing the successes and failures of intervention at each level: individual youths, the gang itself, and the community at large. Spergel relates how a coalition of criminal justice, neighborhood, and academic organizations_along with a team of tactical officers, probation officers, former gang leaders, and a neighborhood organization_developed strategie… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7591-0998-8
EAN: 9780759109988
Produktnummer: 2535027
Verlag: Altamira Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 402 S.
Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.6 cm 768 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 768

Über den Autor

Irving A. Spergel is George Herbert Jones Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in Social Work with a minor in Sociology at Columbia University in 1960, and has worked for five decades on gang problems in the U.S. He is the author of The Youth Gang Problem: A Community Approach.