List Charter
- GANGINFO Overview
- List Charter
- Terms and Conditions of Use
- List Rules and Netiquette
- Application Form
GANGINFO is a discussion list for sharing information about youth gangs. It is an electronic forum for researchers, law enforcement officers and investigators, probation and parole officers, correctional officers, prosecutors, judges, youth agency workers, community "grassroots" organization members, therapists, pastoral counselors, school administrators and educators, social workers, program administrators and developers, policymakers, and certain writers with an interest in youth gangs.
As a rule, nonfiction writers, such as nontabloid journalists, will be granted a subscription to GANGINFO upon request, but fiction writers, such as novelists, will not. However, anyone may contact the National Youth Gang Center directly at nygc@iir.com to obtain further information about gangs and recommendations for follow-up research.
Subscribers can exchange information about effective strategies for identifying and countering gang crime, intervening with gang and at-risk youth, preventing gang growth and expansion, working with victims of gang crime, and promoting professional education and research. GANGINFO also will post announcements of relevant conferences and new literature. List members may do the same.
All persons granted list membership must obtain the permission of the originator/author before quoting in writing, for any purpose, any information posted to the list.
Because GANGINFO uses a nonsecure method of sending mail over the Internet, it is NOT the proper venue for postings containing information about specific gang members or police intelligence.
