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Street Gang Patterns and Policies (Paperback)
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Street Gang Patterns and Policies (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy
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In the past two decades, many prevention and suppression programs
have been initiated on a national and local level to combat street
gangs-but what do we really know about them? Why do youths join
them? Why do they proliferate? Street Gang Patterns and Policies is
a crucial update and critical examination of our understanding of
gangs and major gang-control programs across the nation. Often
perceived solely as an urban issue, street gangs are also a
suburban and rural dilemma. Klein and Maxson focus on gang
proliferation, migration, and crime patterns, and highlight known
risk factors that lead to youths form and join gangs within
communities. Dispelling the long-standing assumptions that the
public, the media, and law enforcement have about street gangs,
they present a comprehensive overview of how gangs are organized
and structured. The authors assess the major gang programs across
the nation and argue that existing prevention, intervention, and
suppression methods targeting individuals, groups, and communities,
have been largely ineffective. Klein and Maxson close by offering
valuable policy guidelines for practitioners on how to intervene
and control gangs more successfully. Filling an important gap in
the literature on street gangs and social control, this book is a
must-read for criminologists, social workers, policy makers, and
criminal justice practitioners. "This is an important book. Malcolm
Klein and Cheryl Maxson here draw upon their own rich and
pioneering research experience and that of others to provide the
most comprehensive review of what is known and what needs to be
known about gangs and their control in community contexts. I stand
in awe of their accomplishment."-James F. Short, Jr., Past
President of the American Sociological Association "The need to
intervene successfully with street gangs is self-evident;
unfortunately the way to do so is not. Klein and Maxson, based on a
masterful review of the empirical literature on gangs and on gang
intervention efforts, lay out a balanced and comprehensive strategy
for confronting this problem head-on. Neither falsely optimistic
nor unnecessarily gloomy, they provide a road map that, if
followed, will yield substantial progress in our fight against
gangs."-Terence P. Thornberry, Director, Research Program on
Problem Behavior, University of Colorado
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