Policing gangs and youth violence / edited by Scott H. Decker.
Material type: TextSeries: Contemporary issues in crime and justice seriesPublisher: Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: xiii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0534598412
- 9780534598419
- 363.23
- HV7936.C83 P657 2003
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Introduction. 1. Gangs, Community Policing, and Problem Solving / Jack R. Greene. 2. Policing Gangs in an Era of Community Policing / Vincent J. Webb and Charles M. Katz -- II. Problem-Solving Approaches to Gangs and Youth Violence. 3. Boston's Youth Violence Prevention Program: A Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach / Jack McDevitt, Anthony A. Braga, Dana Nurge and Michael Buerger. 4. Problem Solving to Reduce Gang and Drug-Related Violence in Indianapolis / Edmund F. McGarrell and Steven Chermak. 5. From Boston to Boyle Heights: The Process and Prospects of a "Pulling Levers" Strategy in a Los Angeles Barrio / George Tita, K. Jack Riley and Peter Greenwood. 6. Evaluating Nuisance Abatement at Gang and Drug Houses in Chicago / James R. "Chip" Coldren, Jr. and Daniel F. Higgins. 7. Beyond Curfews and Crackdowns: An Overview of the Mountlake Terrace Neutral Zone-Americorps Program / Quint C. Thurman and David G. Mueller -- III. Suppression-Based Approaches to Gangs and Youth Violence. 8. Suppression without Prevention, Prevention without Suppression: Gang Intervention in St. Louis / Scott H. Decker and G. David Curry. 9. The Anti-Gang Initiative in Detroit: An Aggressive Enforcement Approach to Gangs / Timothy S. Bynum and Sean P. Varano. 10. For the Sake of the Neighborhood?: Civil Gang Injunctions as a Gang Intervention Tool in Southern California / Cheryl L. Maxson, Karen Hennigan and David C. Sloane. 11. Gang Suppression Through Saturation Patrol and Aggressive Curfew and Truancy Enforcement: A Quasi-Experimental Test of the Dallas Anti-Gang Initiative / Eric J. Fritsch, Tory J. Caeti and Robert W. Taylor -- IV. Conclusion. 12. Policing Gangs and Youth Violence: Where Do we Stand, Where Do we Go from here? / Scott H. Decker.
Presented in this book are current practices within policing and juvenile justice (focusing on gangs), which utilize the community-policing model. By looking at specific strategies and their efficacy, the authors attempt to combat a major perceived problem with community policing; that the methodology of community policing can be subjective and nebulous, using ill-defined and misinterpreted practices. This book shows what is working for agencies across the country and how these "best practices" can be employed. Includes a focus on Boston as a model for gang policing strategies, other chapters are set in different regions of the United States.
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