Winning The War Against Youth Gangs

Author : Valerie Wiener
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780313032455

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Winning the War Against Youth Gangs by Valerie Wiener Pdf

Gangs have spread throughout the entire sector of society, and what was once viewed as an inner-city problem can now be found everywhere, including suburbia. This guide for teenagers, their families, and impacted communities addresses the youth gang issue in understandable, manageable terms. Quotes from teens themselves provide valuable insight into the problems that can cause kids to join gangs: absent parents, the need for excitement or to belong to a group, following in the footsteps of family members who are involved in gangs. These factors and others are explored (including an examination of the workings of the adolescent mind), and sound solutions are suggested to help kids resist gang membership. Four distinct sections bring into focus the topic of youth gangs and ways to prevent kids from joining them. Part I describes many basic issues and needs all teens and pre-teens have in common and how these relate to gangs. Part II addresses how and why certain young people enter and sometimes exit gang alliances. Part III focuses on how several integral components of the teen's life and community can work together to resolve youths' involvement with gangs. Part IV analyzes the critical influence of families and the teens themselves as they approach important life choices. Wiener's unique approach includes suggestions and comments from the young people themselves to try to bridge the gap between themselves and the adults in their lives.

Author : Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers,Mark D. Weist
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306485442

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Community Planning to Foster Resilience in Children by Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers,Mark D. Weist Pdf

Children live in a world of ever-increasing stress factors, including global terrorism, pervasive exposure to violence, increasing substance use, and economic and social instability. To help them maneuver successfully through such a challenging world to adulthood, community-based resilience interventions are becoming more important than ever. Currently, resilience-based interventions are expanding to examine not only the internal strengths children and adolescents bring to a variety of situations, but also to explore how to leverage community and family resources in the context of a culturally diverse world. Community Planning to Foster Resilience in Children reviews a variety of innovative approaches and actions that can be used at the community level to promote resilience in children and adolescents. Key themes throughout the book focus on how to: Shift the paradigm from illness to strengths and health. Assess and improve environments to minimize harmful influences and increase protection. Adapt to and build on strengths of cultural and linguistic variation in an increasingly diverse society. Move toward collaborative approaches that involve youth, families, schools, and community members who partner at all levels of program conception, implementation, evaluation, and improvement. For researchers, clinicians, and students, Community Planning to Foster Resilience in Children will be an essential tool in their efforts to promote the health and success of youth.

Author : Clive Gifford
Publisher : Evans Brothers
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780237542177

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Gangs by Clive Gifford Pdf

'Gangs' deals with an issue of increasing concern in towns and cities throughout the world. It explores how young people are lured into gang life; the links between gangs and the crime on our streets; and whether gangs can be a good force or are always a threat to society.

Author : Karen L. Kinnear
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781598841268

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Gangs by Karen L. Kinnear Pdf

A thoroughly updated look at the world of gangs, charting their growth and development in the United States and worldwide, as well as the efforts to curb their expanding criminal enterprises. Gangs: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition offers an eye-opening look at modern gangs—their history, their ability to attract members from a widening social pool, as well as efforts by community and political leaders to stop gang-related crime and weaken the grip that gangs have on our culture. This timely update shows that while genuine progress has been made, the world of gangs is evolving in fascinating and dangerous ways. The second edition features a wealth of new information, new statistical data, and new insights into the ways gangs operate in cities large and small. It also offers expanded coverage of gangs specific to other countries as well as those that have become genuinely international in nature.

Author : James C. Howell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Gangs
ISBN : UCSD:31822024399990

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Youth Gangs by James C. Howell Pdf

Author : James F. Short,Lorine A. Hughes
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759109397

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Studying Youth Gangs by James F. Short,Lorine A. Hughes Pdf

Provides an introduction to the study of gangs how we define them, what we know and not know about gangs. This title offers both a domestic and international view of processes of delinquency and gang formation and identity. It is suitable for criminal justice, sociology and social work, parole practitioners, and public defenders.

Author : Irving A. Spergel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195357868

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The Youth Gang Problem by Irving A. Spergel Pdf

Every day there are new stories of gang-related crime: from the proliferation of illegal weapons in the streets and children dealing drugs in their schools, to innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire of never-ending gang wars. Once considered an urban phenomenon, gang violence is permeating American life, spreading to the suburbs and bringing the problem closer to home for much of America. The government, schools, social agencies, and the justice system are conspicuous by their sporadic interest in the subject and have failed to develop effective policies and programs. Existing social support mechanisms and strategies for suppressing violence have often been unsuccessful. And, state and federal policy is largely nonexistent. In The Youth Gang Problem: A Community Approach, Irving Spergel provides a systematic analysis of youth gangs in the United States. Based on research, historical and comparative analysis, and agency documents and the author's extensive first-hand experience, the work explores the gang problem from the perspective of community disorganization, especially population movement, and the plight of the underclass. It examines the factors of gang member personality, gang dynamics, criminal organization, and the influence of family, school, prisons, and politics, as well as the response of criminal justice agencies and community groups. Spergel describes techniques used by social agencies, schools, employment programs, criminal justice agencies, and grass-roots organizations for dealing with gangs, and recommends strategies that emphasize the use of local resources, planning, and collaborative procedures. There is no single strategy and no easy solution to the youth gang problem in the United States. There are, however, substantial steps we can take, and they must be honestly and systematically tested. Offering a practical and alternative approach to a serious social problem, The Youth Gang Problem: A Community Approach is a major and long-awaited contribution to this dilemma. It is required reading for criminal justice personnel, school staff, social workers, policy makers, students and scholars of urban and organizational sociology, and the general reader concerned with the youth gang problem and how to control, intervene, and prevent it.

Author : Rafael Art. Javier,William G. Herron
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780765709547

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Understanding Domestic Violence by Rafael Art. Javier,William G. Herron Pdf

Understanding Domestic Violence not only highlights and reexamines the different challenges that we continue to face in effectively addressing issues of domestic violence but provides innovated approaches to interventions that are more in keeping with the complex nature of domestic violence. This book provides a comprehensive and multifaceted examination of conditions and factors involved in domestic violence, including psychological, sociocultural, sociopolitical, and socioeconomic issues. The authors look at domestic violence through the trauma lens and intersectionality to develop intervention strategies within that context. Statistics and clinical examples from the field highlight unique culturally-based issues related to domestic violence among Latino, African American, and Arab Muslim communities, issues with woman perpetrators, and violence in the LGBTQ community, to name a few. In the end, Understanding Domestic Violence offers opportunities for the reader to engage in further discussion of the poignant issues discussed in the book, with the invitation to become part of the solution.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : M. Evans
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781461736004

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Parent School by Anonim Pdf

A collection of 78 original essays from the most respected parenting authors of our time. These leading authorities have contributed what they consider to be their most valuable lesson (philosophy, tips, advice) for parents.

Author : John Pitts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134022199

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Reluctant Gangsters by John Pitts Pdf

This book provides an account of the emergence, nature and impact of armed youth gangs in an East London Borough over the last decade. It describes the challenges these armed young men and women pose to their communities, those charged with preventing crime and those struggling to vouchsafe 'community safety'. While the focus of the book is 'local', the processes it outlines and the effects it chronicles have both a national and international relevance. It argues that the main reason behind the emergence of the armed youth gang has been the coalesence of two previously discreet socially deviant groups; the rowdy, episodically criminal, adolescent peer group on the one hand and the locally-based organized criminal network on the other. The book analyses the impact of the globalisation of the drugs trade and the consequent shift in the focus of local organized crime from the 'blag' to the 'business'. It also discusses how socio-economic and cultural factors, as well as family and neighbourhood histories and loyalties and localized racial antagonisms all play their part in the emergence of the armed youth gang.

Author : Ralph Riviello
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780763744625

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Manual of Forensic Emergency Medicine by Ralph Riviello Pdf

Manual of Forensic Emergency Medicine is a comprehensive guide to the clinical approach to criminal illness and injury. This resource offers emergency care professionals the knowledge needed to make an accurate diagnosis of abuse, neglect, sexual assault or other conditions in which forensic investigation is needed. This book offers information on victim services and resources available for patients, as well as relevant aspects of the legal system. This essential guide contains color photos, a forensic glossary, and forensic forms that can be used in a clinical practice. Key Topics include Forensic Documentation, Firearms, Evidence Collection in the ED, and Gang Violence.

Author : Maureen P. Duffy,Scott E. Gillig
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015058264295

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Teen Gangs by Maureen P. Duffy,Scott E. Gillig Pdf

Contains essays in which the authors examine issues of and responses to teen gangs in fourteen countries, including Australia, Great Britain, Israel, Puerto Rico, and the United States.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781592857913

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I've Got This Friend Who by Anonymous Pdf

Personal stories, fast facts and self-tests help young readers recognize when a friend or family member is in trouble, identify and seek help for their own issues, and practice self-care to avoid feeling overwhelmed by others' problems. This interactive book helps teens handle difficult issues: alcohol or other drug use, depression, eating disorders, and more. Personal stories, fast facts and self-tests help young readers recognize when a friend or family member is in trouble, identify and seek help for their own issues, and practice self-care to avoid feeling overwhelmed by others' problems.

Author : Robert J. Franzese,Herbert C. Covey,Scott Menard
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Gangs
ISBN : 9780398091071

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YOUTH GANGS by Robert J. Franzese,Herbert C. Covey,Scott Menard Pdf

In the quarter century since the first edition of this book, scholarship on gangs in general, and especially youth gangs, has grown exponentially. This massive expansion of the literature on youth gangs, especially in the past decade, warranted this expanded and updated fourth edition. The first chapter has an expanded discussion of definitional issues, plus recent data from the National Youth Gang Survey, material on the evolving economic nature of gangs, and gang use of internet and social media. The second chapter continues by examining gang violence and drug involvement, and the extent to which they are intercorrelated, with new material on victimization of gang members and gang involvement in drug use and sales. Chapter 3 focuses on racial and ethnic decadences in gangs and the important role of race and ethnicity on gang membership and gang behavior in the U.S. The fourth chapter examines female gangs and gang membership and the changes that have taken place in the nature and extent of female gang membership over time. The fifth and sixth chapters place contemporary American gangs in the historical and international perspective. Chapter 5 includes a new section on youth gangs in the new millennium, and Chapter 6 has been reorganized, particularly to reflect the burgeoning research on European and other international gangs since the turn of the millennium. Chapter 7 has been expanded to include recent developments in the actual and potential application of biosocial, psychological, and life course developmental theories to gangs. Chapter 8 provides a comprehensive, multilevel theory of gangs with updates including new propositions, and new evidence for both the new and old propositions, based on more recent work in theory development and theory testing for gangs. The ninth and tenth chapters’ revisions focus on legislative and justice system efforts to deter gang crime and membership. Chapter 10 also focuses on intervention and assistance programs outside the justice system, including discussion of the Gang Resistance Education and Training program. The final chapter concludes by considering the future of youth gangs in the U.S. and elsewhere in light of historical and cross-national evidence, theory, and experience with gang interventions and programs, considering more recent developments in those areas, and whether they justify any change and for what would be expected of the future of youth gangs.

Author : J. Rudolph
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137022882

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Embodying Latino Masculinities by J. Rudolph Pdf

Through explorations of six cases taken from various Latino ethnic groups, this book advances our understanding about meanings of Latino manhood and masculinities. The studies range from theatre and literature to men's activism and sports, showing how masculinities are embodied and performed.