Publications

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

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

Menacing or Mimicking? Realities of Youth Gangs
Mobilizing Communities to Address Gang Problems
Developing a Successful Street Outreach Program: Recommendations and Lessons Learned
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

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://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=695.
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

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 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
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:

National Gang Center Bibliography of Gang Literature

Youth Gang Bibliography

Gang Histories and Profiles

History of Street Gangs in the United States

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