Irving A. Spergel

Gebundenes Buch

Reducing Youth Gang Violence

The Little Village Gang Project in Chicago

Beschreibung

Spergel details the efforts of his Chicago youth gang project, a comprehensive, community-based model designed to reduce gang problems, including violence and illegal drug activity. He shows the successes and failures at each level: individual-youth, gang-as-unit, community, and policy development. This is a valuable model and methodology for a comprehensive approach to gang prevention and intervention which will be an important reference for policy makers, criminologists, gang researchers and community developers.

Autor

Irving A. Spergel is George Herbert Jones Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in Social Work with a minor in Sociology at Columbia University in 1960, and has worked for five decades on gang problems in the U.S. He is the author of The Youth Gang Problem: A Community Approach.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 766g
• ISBN-13: 9780759109988
• ISBN-10: 0759109982
• Artikelnr.: 21634663

Rezensionen

Irving Spergel's book on the Little Village application of the Comprehensive Community gang intervention model is unique as an example of applied research and effective programmatic response. Spergel has created a program to ameliorate community gang problems that is well worth a look by policy makers, gang responders, and criminological theorists. It is the best and most tested reaction to gang problems available today. -- G. David Curry, University of Missouri, St. Louis