Looking Beyond Suppression: Community Strategies to Reduce Gang Violence

Looking Beyond Suppression: Community Strategies to Reduce Gang Violence
ISBN-10
0739150162
ISBN-13
9780739150160
Category
Social Science
Pages
203
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Lexington Books
Authors
Erika Gebo, Brenda J. Bond

Description

This book explores the policies and practices of comprehensive community efforts to reduce gang and youth violence through a specific conceptual framework, the Comprehensive Gang Model. Tailored gang reduction strategies rooted in this framework and in communities' ecological constitutions are showcased throughout the book using case study methodology. The results of these investigations have relevant implications for scholars, learners, and practitioners who seek to address gang violence using customized responses.

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