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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

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Disrupting the Pathways to Gang Violence for Youth of Color

Date Published

January 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Role of Violence Within and Across Self-Identified Gang Youth

Date Published

2014

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

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

Series

NIJ Virtual Conference on School Safety

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

Publication Type

Issue Overview

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

May Piece Be with You: A Typological Examination of the Fear and Victimization Hypothesis of Adolescent Weapon Carrying

Date Published

June 2009

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

For the Sake of the Neighborhood?: Civil Gang Injunction as a Gang Intervention Tool in Southern California (From Policing Gangs and Youth Violence, P 239-266, 2003, Scott H. Decker, ed. -- See NCJ-201783)

Date Published

2003

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Youth Violence in Boston: Gun Markets, Serious Youth Offenders, and a Use-Reduction Strategy

Date Published

1996

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

DRAGON BREATHES FIRE: CHINESE ORGANIZED CRIME IN NEW YORK CITY

Date Published

1993

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Young Gang Membership and Serious Violent Victimization: The Importance of Lifestyles and Routine Activities

Date Published

October 2008

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Combating Crime in Public Housing: A Qualitative and Quantitative Longitudinal Analysis of the Chicago Housing Authority's Anti-Drug Initative

Date Published

1999

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

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

Date Published

December 2013

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored, OJJDP-Sponsored

TECHBeat, June 2019

Date Published

June 2019

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Instructional Material (Programmed)

Agencies

NIJ-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

Gang Membership Prevention

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

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

Publication Type

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

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

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Summary), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Disrupting the Pathways to Gang Violence for Youth of Color

2017-MU-MU-0055

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$468,740

Identifying High-Risk Youth for Secondary Gang Prevention

Date Published

August 2013

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Conclusion: An Invitation From NIJ and CDC to Contribute to Gang-Joining Prevention