" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

The concept of resilience—the capacity to withstand and rebound from disruptive life
challenges—has come to the forefront in the social sciences and in healthcare and mental …

Tackling street gangs has recently been highlighted as a priority for public health. In this
paper, the four components of a public health approach were reviewed:(1) surveillance,(2) …

Purpose The current study investigates the application of risk terrain modeling (RTM) to
forecast gang violence. RTM is routinely utilized to predict future criminal events in micro …

This study explored how changes in neighborhood structural characteristics predicted
variation in gang versus non-gang homicides in a policing division of the Los Angeles Police …

Purpose This paper is designed to critically review and analyze the body of research on a
popular gang reduction strategy, implemented widely in the United States and a number of …

This chapter draws out points of comparison and contrast among the three most prominent
models addressing youth gun violence connected to gangs and groups: focused deterrence …

This study provides the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a family counseling
intervention in the Caribbean, and one of the few RCTs on a violence and delinquency …

The series of policy briefs follows a framing paper that detailed the challenges and
opportunities facing the Great Lakes region (Pendall et al. 2017). During the first decade of …

The countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, and
Honduras) have become notorious for the violence of street gangs, particularly Mara …