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Provides a critical examination of knowledge about gangs and major gang control programs across the nation. This book focuses on gang proliferation and crime patterns, and highlights known risk factors that lead to youths joining gangs and to gang formation within communities. It is useful for criminologists social workers, and policy makers.
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Juvenile delinquency, Gangs, Prevention, Crime, united statesPlaces
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Street Gang Patterns and Policies
Apr 12, 2010, Oxford University Press
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0199742898 9780199742899
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Table of Contents
Gang prevalence, proliferation, and migration
Gang crime patterns
Six major gang control programs
Individual level context : risk factors for joining gangs
Gang structures and group processes
Community context
Multiple goals for gang control programs and policies
A model for policy choices.
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