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National Gang Center Quarterly Newsletter
Volume 2
Spring 2013

This issue features topics on talking to youth about gangs, getting out of and staying out of gangs, NGC trainer Bruce Ferrell, information on NAGIA, and NGC’s updated gang-related legislation page.

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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
• Street Outreach and the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model
• Multidisciplinary Gang Intervention Teams
• 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

• Getting Out of Gangs, Staying Out of Gangs
• 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

• Guidelines for Establishing and Operating Gang Intelligence Units and Task Forces
• 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 2010 National Youth Gang Survey
• U.S. Gang Problem Trends and Seriousness, 1996–2009
• 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:

• 2011 Montana Gang Threat Assessment
• 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