Youth gangs
Event Dynamics and the Role of Third Parties in Urban Youth Violence
Date Published
May 2009
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Moving Forward on Gang Prevention: Knowledge and Application
2008-IJ-CX-0016
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2008
$399,882
Speech to the New York University Alumni Association "Crime Statistics -- Good News or Bad News?"
Thank you.
I would like to talk to you about youth violence. Youth violence is one of those issues that generates overheated debate. Some commentators warn that we are facing a "bloodbath" as the next birth cohort enters the crime-prone years. Some describe a generation of remorseless "superpredators" unlike any young criminals we have seen before. On the other end of the spectrum, commentators of...
Speech to the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City
"New Approaches to Juvenile Violence"
Thank you.
This is a special honor for me to appear before the Citizens Crime Commission, and to share the podium with Congressman Schumer. Throughout his tenure in the Congress, and particularly as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Congressman Schumer has been a staunch advocate for crime control policies that rise above ideological debates to appeal to the...
Reducing Gun Violence: Operation Ceasefire in Los Angeles
Date Published
February 2005
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Comparing the Criminal Behavior of Youth Gangs and At-Risk Youths, Research in Brief
Date Published
October 1998
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Responding to Gangs: Evaluation and Research
Date Published
July 2002
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Program/Project Evaluation
Gang Crime and Law Enforcement Recordkeeping, Research in Brief
Date Published
June 1994
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Prosecuting Gangs: A National Assessment, Research in Brief
Date Published
February 1995
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Diffusion Processes in Homicide
Date Published
1999
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Literature Review
Community Gang Prevention Team Survey
Date Published
1997
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Evaluating G.R.E.A.T.: A School-Based Gang Prevention Program
Date Published
June 2004
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Police Response to Gangs: A Multi-Site Study
Date Published
December 2003
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Homicide in Los Angeles: An Analysis of the Differential Character of Adolescent and Other Homicides
Date Published
March 2000
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Adolescent Homicides in Los Angeles: Are They Different From Other Homicides? Summary
Date Published
March 2000
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Gang Structures, Crime Patterns, and Police Responses: A Summary Report
Date Published
April 1996
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Gang Structures, Crime Patterns, and Police Responses
Date Published
April 1996
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Policing by Injunction: Problem-Oriented Dimensions of Civil Gang Abatement in the State of California
Date Published
2002
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Thesis/Dissertation
Gang Activity in Orange County, California: Final Report to the National Institute of Justice
Date Published
August 1999
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Gangs in Rural America, Final Report
Date Published
August 2001
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Establishment of a Police Gang Unit: An Examination of Rational and Institutional Considerations
Date Published
2000
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
National Evaluation of G.R.E.A.T.
Date Published
November 1997
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation