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Quantifying Gang Locations: Systematically Testing Validity Using a Partial Test of Messick's Unified Perspective

Date Published

December 2017

Publication Type

Thesis/Dissertation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Gun Wars and Community Terrorization: Investigating Longitudinal Gang Violence in New Jersey from a Networked Perspective

15PNIJ-22-AG-00266-NIJB

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$278,976

Origins and Development of the Policia Nacional Civil of El Salvador (From Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice, P 172-181, 2004, Gorazd Mesko, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-207973)

Date Published

September 2004

Publication Type

Historical Overview

Agencies

NIJ

Mara Salvatrucha: The Deadliest Street Gang in America

Date Published

July 2017

Publication Type

Research Paper

Agencies

NIJ

What's Sex (Composition) Got To Do With It? The Importance of Sex Composition of Gangs for Female and Male Members' Offending and Victimization

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Project Safe Neighborhoods: Strategic Interventions-Strategic Problem-Solving Responses to Gang Crime and Gang Problems (Case Study 8)

Date Published

February 2007

Agencies

BJA

Advancing Understanding, and Informing Prevention of Public Mass Shootings: Findings from NIJ Funded Studies, Part 2

November 2020

In recent years, NIJ invested in several research projects to advance understanding and inform prevention of public mass shootings.

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National Youth Gang Survey

2020-JX-FX-K007

Open

Funding First Awarded

2020

$996,640

Assessing the Relationship between Immigration Status, Crime, Gang Affiliation, and Victimization

2020-R2-CX-0028

Open

Funding First Awarded

2020

$462,165

Criminal Behavior of Gang Members and At-Risk Youths

Date Published

January 1998

Series

NIJ Research Preview

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ

Reducing Gun Violence: Results From an Intervention in East Los Angeles

Date Published

2003

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Criminal Behavior of Gang Members, Final Report

Date Published

December 1995

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Estimating the National Scope of Gang Crime From Law Enforcement Data (From Gangs in America, Second Edition, P 21-36, 1996, C Ronald Huff, ed. -- See NCJ-165296)

Date Published

1996

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Women's and Men's Fear of Gang Crimes: Sexual and Nonsexual Assault as Perceptually Contemporaneous Offenses

Date Published

June 2003

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Street Gang Migration: How Big a Threat?

Date Published

February 1996

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Update on Gang Crime and Law Enforcement Recordkeeping: Report of the 1994 NIJ Extended National Assessment Survey of Law Enforcement Anti-Gang Information Resources, Final Report

Date Published

1994

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Socialization to Gangs in St. Louis Project: Background and Executive Summary, Final Report

Date Published

2000

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored, NIJ-Sponsored

Impact of Police Culture on Traffic Stop Searches: An Analysis of Attitudes and Behavior

Date Published

2005

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Using Traffic Barriers to "Design Out" Crime: A Program Evaluation of LADP's Operation Cul-de-Sac

Date Published

1996

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

It's Getting Crazy Out There: Can a Civil Gang Injunction Change a Community

Date Published

August 2005

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Gangs and Organized Crime Groups: Connections and Similarities

Date Published

1997

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Police-Prosecutor Drug Enforcement Teams: Innovations in Three Jurisdictions

Date Published

1990

Publication Type

Program Description (Demonstrative)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Combining Theoretical Models of Perceived Risk and Fear of Gang Crime among Whites and Latinos

Date Published

January 2011

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Theories and Fear of Gang Crime Among Whites and Latinos: A Replication and Extension of Prior Research

Date Published

November 2005

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Dangerous Places: Gang Members and Neighborhood Levels of Gun Assault

Date Published

August 2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored