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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Gangs, Community Policing, and Problem Solving | |
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| Community Policing and Problem Solving: From Individuals to Organizations | |
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| Suppression or Prevention: What's the Mix? | |
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| The Shifting Nature of Youth/Crime Problems--Root and Proximate Cause | |
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| Clearly Specifying and Measuring Police and Community "Treatments" | |
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| Mobilizing External Others for Effective Interventions | |
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| Organizational Issues Confronting Problem Solving for Gangs | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Policing Gangs in an Era of Community Policing | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theoretical and Policy Rationales for the Establishment of Specialized Police Gang Units | |
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| Police Gang Unit Functions and Specialization | |
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| Gang Units as Loosely Coupled Organizations | |
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| Police Gang Units in a Time of Community-Oriented Policing | |
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| Two Models of Police Gang Units | |
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| Toward Improving the Effectiveness of Police Gang Units | |
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| Problem-Solving Approaches to Gangs and Youth Violence | |
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| Boston's Youth Violence Prevention Program: A Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach | |
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| Description of Study Site | |
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| A Short History of Gangs in Boston | |
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| Contemporary Boston Gang Problems | |
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| Boston Policy Initiatives and Programs to Reduce Youth Violence | |
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| The Impact of Operation Ceasefire on Youth Violence in Boston | |
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| The Changing Face of Gangs in Boston | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Problem Solving to Reduce Gang and Drug-Related Violence in Indianapolis | |
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| Background--Indianapolis | |
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| Intervention: Multiagency Problem Solving | |
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| Multiagency Problem-Solving Approach | |
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| Initial Assessment of Impact | |
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| Feedback to the Working Group | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| From Boston to Boyle Heights: The Process and Prospects of a "Pulling Levers" Strategy in a Los Angeles Barrio | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Describing the Los Angeles Experience | |
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| The Boston Gun Project | |
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| The Los Angeles Replication | |
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| Response: Developing the "Stick" | |
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| Initiating the Intervention: Defining a Trigger Event | |
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| Response: Developing the "Carrot" | |
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| Potential Community Responses | |
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| Formulating Responses | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| Evaluating Nuisance Abatement at Gang and Drug Houses in Chicago | |
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| Introduction: Enhancing Chicago's Community-Policing Strategy | |
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| Backdrop of Gang and Drug Problems in Chicago | |
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| The Municipal Drug and Gang Enforcement Strategy | |
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| Evaluation Design | |
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| Planned Inspection and Enforcement Process | |
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| Actions Taken by MDGE | |
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| Process Evaluation | |
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| Changes in MDGE Goals and Objectives | |
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| Impact Evaluation | |
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| Impact Analysis Results | |
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| Summary and Recommendations | |
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| Beyond Curfews and Crackdowns: An Overview of the Mountlake Terrace Neutral Zone-Americorps Program | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Literature Review | |
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| Descriptions of the Study Site and Intervention | |
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| Methods | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Suppression-Based Approaches to Gangs and Youth Violence | |
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| Suppression Without Prevention, Prevention Without Suppression: Gang Intervention in St. Louis | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Responding to Gang-Related Crime and Delinquency | |
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| The St. Louis Context | |
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| Study Methodology | |
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| The St. Louis Anti-Gang Initiative Intensive Case Study | |
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| AGI Activities | |
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| Outcome Measures | |
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| The Anti-Gang Initiative in Review | |
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| The Application of the SafeFutures Model in St. Louis | |
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| Concluding Thoughts on Gang Intervention | |
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| The Anti-Gang Initiative in Detroit: An Aggressive Enforcement Approach to Gangs | |
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| Site Description | |
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| Crime Patterns | |
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| Brief History of Detroit | |
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| Gangs in Detroit | |
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| Initiation of Detroit's Anti-Gang Initiative | |
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| Methodology | |
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| Findings | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| For the Sake of the Neighborhood?: Civil Gang Injunctions as a Gang Intervention Tool in Southern California | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Conceptual Underpinnings of Gang Injunctions | |
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| The Injunction Mechanism Described | |
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| What Is the Evidence of Success? | |
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| Legal Issues Raised by CGIs | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Gang Suppression Through Saturation Patrol and Aggressive Curfew and Truancy Enforcement: A Quasi-Experimental Test of the Dallas Anti-Gang Initiative | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Literature Review | |
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| The Police Role in Dealing with Gangs | |
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| Methodology | |
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| Findings | |
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| Discussion and Conclusions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Policing Gangs and Youth Violence: Where Do We Stand, Where Do We Go from Here? | |
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| Responding to Gangs and Youth Violence | |
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| Contemporary Responses to Gangs and Youth Violence | |
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| Index | |