Waubonsee Community College

Reducing youth gang violence, the Little Village Gang Project in Chicago, Irving A. Spergel

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-369) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Reducing youth gang violence

bibliography

70335156

Irving A. Spergel

"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 strategies for dealing with hardcore violent male youths from two gangs: the Latin Kings and Two Six. This well-known project has become the model for a series of national initiatives. Policymakers, criminologists, and gang researchers will find this model valuable for assessing gang programs and reducing gang violence."--Jacket

Violence prevention and policy series

the Little Village Gang Project in Chicago

Gang programs -- Project formation -- Entering the field -- Team development -- Social intervention : the outreach youth worker -- Suppression/social control -- Community mobilization -- The project evaluation model -- Changes in social context of program youth -- Life course factors related to self-reported offense/arrest changes -- Project-worker contacts, services, and strategies -- Arrest changes : program and comparison youth -- Arrest changes for different types of gang youth -- Services and outcome -- Gang and community crime change -- Project termination -- Summary