Evaluation in an Imported Gang Violence Deterrence Program, Final Report
Date Published
1984
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Victims of gangs
Leaving Gangs and Desisting from Crime Using a Multidisciplinary Team Approach: A Randomized Control Trial Evaluation of the Gang Reduction Initiative of Denver
Date Published
March 2023
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Disrupting the Pathways to Gang Violence for Youth of Color
Date Published
January 2023
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
The Role of Violence Within and Across Self-Identified Gang Youth
Date Published
2014
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Gun Wars and Community Terrorization: Investigating Longitudinal Gang Violence in New Jersey from a Networked Perspective
15PNIJ-22-AG-00266-NIJB
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2022
$278,976
Multi-Component Efforts to Improve School Safety - Breakout Session, NIJ Virtual Conference on School Safety
February 2021
On February 16-18, 2021, the National Institute of Justice hosted the Virtual Conference on School Safety: Bridging Research to Practice to Safeguard Our Schools. This video includes the following presentations:
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Advancing Knowledge To Reduce Gangs and Gang Violence: Perspectives From Researchers and Practitioners
Date Published
June 2021
Agencies
NIJ
National Youth Gang Survey
2020-JX-FX-K007
Open
Funding First Awarded
2020
$996,640
Gun Wars and Community Terrorization: Investigating Longitudinal Gang Violence in New Jersey from a Networked Perspective
2020-75-CX-0009
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2020
$435,020
Youth Gang Desistance: An Examination of the Effect of Different Operational Definitions of Desistance on the Motivations, Methods, and Consequences Associated With Leaving the Gang
Journal
Date Published
December 2013
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored,
OJJDP-Sponsored
Gang Membership Prevention
June 2010
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIJ collaborated on a book that focuses on promising principles for gang membership prevention. This NIJ Conference Panel discusses the risk and protective factors that influence gang membership as well as efforts to reduce such factors. Panelists also explored the direction of gang research for the future.
Transcript
Audio file
1 of 4: Gang Membership Prevention, Louis Tuthill, National Institute of Justice
, 2 of 4: Gang Membership Prevention, Gretchen C.F. Shappert, Project Safe Neighborhoods National Coordinator and Anti-Gang Coordinator, Executive Office for United States Attorneys, U.S. Department of Justice
, 3 of 4: Gang Membership Prevention, James Buddy Howell, Senior Research Associate, National Youth Gang Center in Tallahassee, Fla.; and Special Advisor, Life History Research Program, University of Pittsburgh
, 4 of 4: Gang Membership Prevention, Jorja Leap, Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Welfare, School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles
Changing Course: Preventing Gang Membership
Date Published
January 1, 2019
A new book offers evidence-based principles that can halt the cascading impact of gangs on youth, families, neighborhoods and society at large.
Research-Based Practice Guide to Address Gang Violence
2018-PB-FX-K002
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$749,956
Reducing Gang Violence: A Long-Term Follow-Up of a Randomized Trial of Functional Family Therapy
2018-75-CX-0027
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$770,657
Reducing Gang Violence: A Randomized Trial of Functional Family Therapy
Date Published
June 2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Untangling the Web of Violence: The Network Effects of Civil Gang Injunctions
2017-JF-FX-0043
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$120,208
Measuring the Nature and Extent of Gang Involvement in Sex Trafficking in San Diego, Executive Summary
Date Published
October 2015
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored