Publications

As a supplement to the documents available online, a CD containing a selection of gang-related documents can be mailed to you.

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Comprehensive Gang Model

• A Guide to Assessing Your Community’s Youth Gang Problem
• OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model: Planning for Implementation
• Best Practices to Address Community Gang Problems
• Gang Suppression and Intervention: Problem and Response
• Gang Suppression and Intervention: Community Models
• Implementing the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.

General Gang-Related Publications

• City Gangs
• History of Street Gangs in the United States
• Menacing or Mimicking? Realities of Youth Gangs
• Mobilizing Communities to Address Gang Problems
• The Impact of Gangs on Communities
• Addressing Community Gang Problems: A Model for Problem Solving
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• Addressing Community Gang Problems: A Practical Guide
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• Gangs in Small Towns and Rural Counties
• Youth Gangs in Rural America
• Youth Gangs in Indian Country
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Modern-Day Youth Gangs
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Hybrid and Other Modern Gangs
• Female Gangs: A Focus on Research
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Graffiti
• The Comprehensive Strategy: Lessons Learned From the Pilot Sites
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Street Gangs and Interventions: Innovative Problem Solving with Network Analysis
• Measuring Violence-Related Attitudes, Behaviors, and Influences Among Youths: A Compendium of Assessment Tools—Second Edition
• Violence by Gang Members, 1993–2003
  • See also http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=695.
• Gang Members on the Move

Gang Prevention

• Gang Prevention: An Overview of Research and Programs
• Gang Prevention: How to Make the “Front End” of Your Anti-Gang Effort Work
• Preventing Gang Violence and Building Communities Where Young People Thrive

Gang Intervention and Reentry

• Multidisciplinary Gang Intervention Teams
• Guidelines to Gang Reentry
• Developing a Successful Street Outreach Program: Recommendations and Lessons Learned
• Effective Intervention for Serious Juvenile Offenders
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Implementation of the Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Program
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.

Gang Suppression

• Property Abatements—The Other Gang Injunction: Project T.O.U.G.H.
• OJJDP Gang Prosecution Manual
• National Gang Threat Assessment 2009
• Civil Gang Injunctions: A Guide for Prosecutors
• Prosecuting Gang Cases: What Local Prosecutors Need to Know
• Gang Issues, United States Attorneys’ Bulletin, July 2008, Volume 56, Number 4
• Can Civil Gang Injunctions Change Communities? A Community Assessment of the Impact of Civil Gang Injunctions
• Preventing Gang- and Drug-Related Witness Intimidation
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• Gangs Toolkit
• Specialized Gang Units: Form and Function in Community Policing
• Solutions to Address Gang Crime CD-ROM, Version 2.1
• Strategies to Address Gang Crime: A Guidebook for Local Law Enforcement
• Drive-By Shootings

Gangs, Drugs, and Guns

• Project Safe Neighborhoods—A National Program to Reduce Gun Crime: Final Project Report
• Promising Strategies To Reduce Gun Violence
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Gun Violence Among Serious Young Offenders
• Kids and Guns (1999 National Report Series)
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• The Youth Gangs, Drugs, and Violence Connection
• Youth Gang Drug Trafficking

Gangs and Schools

• Bullying in Schools: An Overview
• Responding to Gangs in the School Setting
• Youth Gangs in Schools
• Gang Problems and Gang Programs in a National Sample of Schools
• Bullying in Schools
• Balancing Student Privacy and School Safety: A Guide to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act for Elementary and Secondary Schools

Research

• Responding to Gangs: Evaluation and Research
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• Gang Members and Delinquent Behavior
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• Gang Membership, Delinquent Peers, and Delinquent Behavior
• Predictors of Youth Violence
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Police Response to Gangs: A Multi-Site Study
• Homicide in Los Angeles: An Analysis of the Differential Character of Adolescent and Other Homicides
• Highlights of Findings From the Rochester Youth Development Study
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• Highlights of Findings From the Pittsburgh Youth Study
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• Highlights of Findings From the Denver Youth Survey
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• Early Precursors of Gang Membership: A Study of Seattle Youth

Evaluations

• Findings From the Evaluation of OJJDP’s Gang Reduction Program
• Evaluation of CeaseFire–Chicago
• Evaluation and Evolution of the Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) Program
• Gang Intervention Partnership: Evaluation of and Recommendations Regarding a Program to Reduce Criminal Activity of Latino Gangs in the District of Columbia

Surveys, Statistics, and Analyses

National Youth Gang Surveys:

• Highlights of the 2009 National Youth Gang Survey
• Highlights of the 2008 National Youth Gang Survey
• Highlights of the 2007 National Youth Gang Survey
• Highlights of the 2006 National Youth Gang Survey
• Highlights of the 2005 National Youth Gang Survey
• Highlights of the 2004 National Youth Gang Survey
• Highlights of the 2002–2003 National Youth Gang Surveys
• Highlights of the 2002 National Youth Gang Survey
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• Highlights of the 2001 National Youth Gang Survey
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• National Youth Gang Survey 1999–2001
• National Youth Gang Survey Trends From 1996 to 2000
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• Highlights of the 2000 National Youth Gang Survey
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• Highlights of the 1999 National Youth Gang Survey
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• 1998 National Youth Gang Survey
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Highlights of the 1998 National Youth Gang Survey
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• 1997 National Youth Gang Survey
• Highlights of the 1997 National Youth Gang Survey
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• 1996 National Youth Gang Survey
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Highlights of the 1996 National Youth Gang Survey
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• 1995 National Youth Gang Survey
• Highlights of the 1995 National Youth Gang Survey

Related Surveys and Statistics:

• 2000 Survey of Youth Gangs in Indian Country
• Youth Gang Homicides in the 1990’s
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• The Growth of Youth Gang Problems in the United States: 1970–98 (because of its large size, the document is in two parts)
  • Part 1
  • Part 2

State Reports:

• Florida Gang Reduction Strategy 2010 Annual Report
• Gangs in North Carolina: An Analysis of GangNET Data
• Gangs and Crime in South Carolina: How Much, How Bad?
• Gangs in New Jersey: Municipal Law Enforcement Response to the 2010 NJSP Gang Survey
• 2008 Arizona Gang Threat Assessment
• Criminal Gangs in Maryland
• 2009 Gangland Behind Bars: How and Why Organized Criminal Street Gangs Thrive in New Jersey’s Prisons . . . And What Can Be Done About It
• Northern Virginia Comprehensive Gang Assessment 2003–2008
• Responding to Gang, Crew and Youth Violence in the District of Columbia
• Youth Gang Violence and Guns: Data Collection in California
• Northeast Wisconsin Gang Assessment
• 2007 Statewide Gang Survey Results (Florida)
• 2007 Pennsylvania Youth Survey Report
• Organized Crime in California: 2005 Annual Report to the California Legislature

National Gang Center Bibliography of Gang Literature

• Gang Bibliography

Victims and Witnesses

• Working With Victims of Gun Violence
• Preventing Gang- and Drug-Related Witness Intimidation
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• Victim and Witness Intimidation: New Developments and Emerging Responses
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• Witness Intimidation
• Gang-Related Witness Intimidation

Program Sustainability and Replication

• Laying a Solid Foundation: Strategies for Effective Program Replication
• Building Sustainability in Demonstration Projects for Children, Youth, and Families
• Program Sustainability: Developing Strategies For Maintaining Programs Over the Long-term
• Sustaining Your Gang Prevention Efforts