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 Approach to Gangs

• 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
• 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.
• The Comprehensive Strategy: Lessons Learned From the Pilot Sites
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Implementing the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.

Gang Prevention and Intervention

• Gang Prevention: How to Make the “Front End” of Your Anti-Gang Effort Work
• Multidisciplinary Gang Intervention Teams
• The Impact of Gangs on Communities
• Evaluation Updates of G.R.E.A.T. and Chicago CeaseFire
• Evaluation of OJJDP’s Gang Reduction Program Yields Positive Results
• Gangs in Small Towns and Rural Counties
• Youth Gang Programs and Strategies
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Preventing Adolescent Gang Involvement
• Responding to Gangs: Evaluation and Research
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• National Youth Court Center
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• Effective Intervention for Serious Juvenile Offenders
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Gang Members and Delinquent Behavior
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• Predictors of Youth Violence
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Prevention of Serious and Violent Juvenile Offending
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Employment and Training for Court-Involved Youth: An Overview
  • 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.
• Juveniles Facing Criminal Sanctions: Three States That Changed the Rules
• Gang Intervention Partnership: Evaluation of and Recommendations Regarding a Program to Reduce Criminal Activity of Latino Gangs in the District of Columbia
• Youth Gangs in Rural America
• Project Safe Neighborhoods—A National Program to Reduce Gun Crime: Final Project Report
• Evaluation of CeaseFire–Chicago
• National Evaluation of the Safe Kids/Safe Streets Program: Final Report Executive Summary
• Reaching Through the Cracks: A Guide to Implementing the Youth Violence Reduction Partnership

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.
• Checkpoints: Fourth Amendment Implications of Limiting Access to High Crime Areas. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. March 1998
• Boston’s Operation Night Light: New Roles, New Rules. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. August 1998
• Gang- and Drug-Related Homicide: Baltimore’s Successful Enforcement Strategy
• Gangs Toolkit
• Police Response to Gangs: A Multi-Site Study
• Solutions to Address Gang Crime
• Specialized Gang Units: Form and Function in Community Policing
• Street Gangs and Interventions: Innovative Problem Solving with Network Analysis
• Violent Crime Impact Teams (VCIT) Initiative: Focus on Partnerships
• Solutions to Address Gang Crime CD-ROM, Version 2.1
• Strategies to Address Gang Crime: A Guidebook for Local Law Enforcement
• Gun Violence Among Serious Young Offenders
• Graffiti
• Drive-By Shootings

Gangs, Violence, and Drugs in the Community

• The Youth Gangs, Drugs, and Violence Connection
• Youth Gang Drug Trafficking
• Understanding Youth Violence: Fact Sheet
• Youth Violence: Facts at a Glance
• Preventing Violence the Problem-Solving Way
• Promising Strategies To Reduce Gun Violence
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Violent Neighborhoods, Violent Kids
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Kids and Guns (1999 National Report Series)
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Too Soon to Tell: Deciphering Recent Trends in Youth Violence
• 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://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/vgm03.htm.
• Violent Victimization as a Risk Factor for Violent Offending Among Juveniles
• Homicide in Los Angeles: An Analysis of the Differential Character of Adolescent and Other Homicides
• Youth Violence: Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention—A Sourcebook for Community Action

Crime, Violence, and Schools

• Youth Gangs in Schools
• Gang Problems and Gang Programs in a National Sample of Schools
• The Final Report and Findings of the Safe Schools Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States
• Bullying in Schools
• Balancing Student Privacy and School Safety: A Guide to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act for Elementary and Secondary Schools
• Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2008
• Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools—Findings From the School Survey on Crime and Safety: 2005–06

OJJDP’S Youth Gang Series

• 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.
• Early Precursors of Gang Membership: A Study of Seattle Youth
• Hybrid and Other Modern Gangs
• Youth Gangs in Schools
• Youth Gangs: An Overview
• Gang Members on the Move
• Gang Membership, Delinquent Peers, and Delinquent Behavior
• The Youth Gangs, Drugs, and Violence Connection
• Youth Gang Drug Trafficking
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• Preventing Adolescent Gang Involvement
• Female Gangs: A Focus on Research
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.

Surveys, Statistics, and Analyses

National Youth Gang Surveys:

• 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
• Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report
  • This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
• 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
• Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Court, 2005
• Delinquency Cases Waived to Adult Court, 2005
• Juvenile Delinquency Probation Caseload, 2005
• Introduction to the Survey of Youth in Residential Placement
• Juvenile Residential Facility Census, 2004: Selected Findings
• Comparing the Criminal Behavior of Youth Gangs and At-Risk Youths
  • This document is also available as a plain text file.
• OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book (an online version of Juvenile Offenders and Victims)
• 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.

State Reports:

• Northern Virginia Comprehensive Gang Assessment 2003–2008
• Gangs in North Carolina: A 2009 Report to the General Assembly
• Youth Gang Violence and Guns: Data Collection in California
• Northeast Wisconsin Gang Assessment
• 2007 Statewide Gang Survey Results (Florida)
• 2007 Pennsylvania Youth Survey Report: Statewide Report
• Gangs in New Jersey: Municipal Law Enforcement Response to the 2007 NJSP Gang Survey
• 2006 Gangs in Arizona
• Organized Crime in California: 2005 Annual Report to the California Legislature
• South Carolina Gang Survey, 2005
• Gangs in Texas 2001: An Overview

National Gang Center Bibliography of Gang Literature

• Youth 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