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Policing gangs and youth violence / edited by Scott H. Decker.

Title: Policing gangs and youth violence / edited by Scott H. Decker.
Publication: Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, c2003.

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Decker, Scott H.

Description

xiii, 298 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Presented in this book are current practices within policing and juvenile justice (focusing on gangs), which utilize the community-policing model. By looking at specific strategies and their efficacy, the authors attempt to combat a major perceived problem with community policing; that the methodology of community policing can be subjective and nebulous, using ill-defined and misinterpreted practices. This book shows what is working for agencies across the country and how these "best practices" can be employed. Includes a focus on Boston as a model for gang policing strategies, other chapters are set in different regions of the United States.

Series Statement

The Wadsworth contemporary issues in crime and justice series

Uniform Title

Contemporary issues in crime and justice series.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

Gangs, community policing, and problem solving / Jack R. Greene -- Policing gangs in an era of community policing / Vincent J. Webb, Charles M. Katz -- Boston's Youth Violence Prevention Program : a comprehensive community-wide approach / Jack McDevitt, Anthony Braga, Dana Nurge, Michael Buerger -- Problem solving to reduce gang and drug-related violence in Indianapolis / Edmund F. McGarrell, Steven Chermak -- From Boston to Boyle Heights : the process and prospects of a "pulling levers" strategy in a Los Angeles barrio / George Tita, K. Jack Riley, Peter Greenwood -- Evaluating nuisance abatement at gang and drug houses in Chicago / James R. "Chip" Coldren, Jr., Daniel F. Higgins -- Beyond curfews and crackdowns : an overview of the Mountlake Terrace Neutral Zone-AmeriCorps Program / Quint C. Thurman, David G. Mueller -- Suppression without prevention, prevention without suppression : gang intervention in St. Louis / Scott H. Decker, G. David Curry -- The Anti-Gang Initiative in Detroit : an aggressive enforcement approach to gangs / Timothy S. Bynum, Sean P. Varano -- For the sake of the neighborhood? : civil gang injunctions as a gang intervention tool in Southern California / Cheryl L. Maxson, Karen Hennigan, David C. Sloane -- Gang suppression through saturation patrol and aggressive curfew and truancy enforcement : a quasi-experimental test of the Dallas Anti-Gang Initiative / Eric J. Fritsch, Tory J. Caeti, Robert W. Taylor -- Policing gangs and youth violence : where do we stand, where do we go from here? / Scott H. Decker.

ISBN

0534598412

LCCN

^^2002110761

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Harvard Library