Youth gangs
Event Dynamics and the Role of Third Parties in Urban Youth Violence
NCJ Number
227781
Date Published
May 2009
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
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
NCJ Number
192378
Date Published
February 2005
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Publication Link
Comparing the Criminal Behavior of Youth Gangs and At-Risk Youths, Research in Brief
NCJ Number
172852
Date Published
October 1998
Agencies
NIJ
Series
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Responding to Gangs: Evaluation and Research
NCJ Number
190351
Date Published
July 2002
Agencies
NIJ
Series
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Program/Project Evaluation
Gang Crime and Law Enforcement Recordkeeping, Research in Brief
NCJ Number
148345
Date Published
June 1994
Agencies
NIJ
Series
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Prosecuting Gangs: A National Assessment, Research in Brief
NCJ Number
151785
Date Published
February 1995
Agencies
NIJ
Series
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Diffusion Processes in Homicide
NCJ Number
193425
Date Published
1999
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Literature Review
Publication Link
Community Gang Prevention Team Survey
NCJ Number
194717
Date Published
1997
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Evaluating G.R.E.A.T.: A School-Based Gang Prevention Program
NCJ Number
198604
Date Published
June 2004
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Publication Link
Police Response to Gangs: A Multi-Site Study
NCJ Number
205003
Date Published
December 2003
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Homicide in Los Angeles: An Analysis of the Differential Character of Adolescent and Other Homicides
NCJ Number
193812
Date Published
March 2000
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Series
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Adolescent Homicides in Los Angeles: Are They Different From Other Homicides? Summary
NCJ Number
193811
Date Published
March 2000
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Series
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Gang Structures, Crime Patterns, and Police Responses: A Summary Report
NCJ Number
188510
Date Published
April 1996
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Series
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Gang Structures, Crime Patterns, and Police Responses
NCJ Number
188511
Date Published
April 1996
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Series
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Policing by Injunction: Problem-Oriented Dimensions of Civil Gang Abatement in the State of California
NCJ Number
197138
Date Published
2002
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Thesis/Dissertation
Publication Link
Gang Activity in Orange County, California: Final Report to the National Institute of Justice
NCJ Number
181242
Date Published
August 1999
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Gangs in Rural America, Final Report
NCJ Number
190228
Date Published
August 2001
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Establishment of a Police Gang Unit: An Examination of Rational and Institutional Considerations
NCJ Number
185725
Date Published
2000
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
National Evaluation of G.R.E.A.T.
NCJ Number
167264
Date Published
November 1997
Agencies
NIJ
Series
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation