Street Gang Patterns and Policies

Focuses on gang proliferation, migration, and crime patterns, and highlights known risk factors that lead to youths joining gangs and to gang formation within communities.

Street Gang Patterns and Policies

By Malcolm Klein and Cheryl Maxson
Provides a crucial update and critical examination of knowledge about gangs and major gang control programs across the nation. The book focuses on gang proliferation, migration, and crime patterns, and highlights known risk factors that lead to youths joining gangs and to gang formation within communities.
Dispelling long-standing assumptions that the public - and the media and law enforcement - have about street gangs, the authors present a comprehensive overview of how gangs are organized and structured.
They 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, when evaluated.
Klein and Maxson close by offering 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 will be a must read for criminologists, social workers, policy makers, and criminal justice practitioners. 320 pages. Hardcover. July 2006.
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