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NCJ Number: 115220 Add to Shopping cart Find in a Library
Title: Youth Gangs: Problem and Response: A Review of the Literature, Executive Summary
Author(s): I A Spergel
Date Published: 1989
Annotation: This report summarizes the literature on youth gangs and responses to them.
Abstract: Increasingly, the definition of gang refers to juveniles and young adults in all 50 States who associate for serious, especially violent, criminal behavior. While the scope and seriousness of the gang problem are unclear, there is evidence for an increase in gang-related violence and increasing involvement in drug trafficking. Generally, gangs are loosely organized and consist of core, regular, peripheral and recruit members. Variables of class, culture, race, or ethnicity of gangs interact with local community factors of poverty, social instability, and/or social isolation to account for the variety of problems that exist. Gang membership provides certain psychological, social, cultural, and economic functions not adequately fulfilled by the family, school, or legal employment. Four basic strategies have evolved in dealing with youth gangs: community organization or neighborhood mobilization, youth outreach, provision of social and economic opportunities, and gang suppression and incarceration. Social agency youth development and law enforcement suppression strategies have predominated, and often clashed with each other.
Main Term(s): Juvenile/Youth Gangs
Index Term(s): Juvenile crime patterns; Juvenile delinquency factors; Juvenile delinquency prevention programs
Sponsoring Agency: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Washington, DC 20531
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637
Corporate Author: University of Chicago
School of Social Service Admin
National Youth Gang Suppression and Intervention Project
Unite

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
US Dept of Justice
United States of America
Page Count: 24
Format: Document
Type: Literature Review
Language: English
Country: United States of America
Note: Prepared for the National Youth Gang Suppression and Intervention Project
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