This handbook promotes a comprehensive strategy founded on evidence-based
programming for juvenile justice systems to adopt or enhance their current system. The …

Notional Gong Center rogress has been slow in developing antigang programs. Preventing
gangs from forming and eliminating established gangs altogether seems impossible when …

This article examines the public policy benefits of gang research. In particular, the author
highlights the benefits of longitudinal research on gang members in several cities and multi …

One strategy that has gained credence, and is promulgated by the US Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), is the Comprehensive Gang Model (CGM) …

Our comments focus on the policy and program implications of these findings for school
systems. Important considerations include the following. Foremost, school administrators …

Youth gangs are not a new social problem in the United States. They have been a serious
problem since the early 19th century—and they remain a persistent problem. Overall, one …

Abstract Background The 2013 Malaria World Report indicated that in 2012 there were
approximately 207 million cases of malaria, which resulted in an estimated 627,000 malaria …

Summary This chapter traces Irving Spergel's lifetime of gang work. His pioneering career in
gang research and program development began in the 1940s and extended for 60 years …

Increasingly there is a call from policy makers for communities to work collaboratively to
ameliorate social problems; yet, collaborating is arguably one of the most difficult tasks of …