Publications
Please select a category below to find Internet-accessible documents listed by title.
- Comprehensive Approach to Youth Gangs
- The most effective response to youth gangs is a combination of interdependent prevention, intervention, and suppression strategies, selected by a community to target its emerging or chronic gang problems, which have been identified by a comprehensive, systematic assessment. Documents in this category explain and illustrate how this may be done.
- Crime, Violence, and Schools
- Documents exploring violence and crime in the school setting are available for review.
- Gangs and Drugs/Violence and Drugs
- The role played by drug trafficking in youth gang violent behavior is explored by these articles.
- National Youth Gang Center Bibliography of Gang Literature (Adobe)
- This listing includes citations for over 2,000 books, journal articles, and manuscripts that span the gamut of gang research.
- OJJDP’S Youth in Action Series (selected publications)
- Youth in Action publications feature crime prevention programs that rely on youth involvement, including youth/adult partnerships, to boost effectiveness.
- OJJDP’S Youth Gang Series
- The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention explores issues related to youth gangs, including growth, expansion, and migration; drugs and violence; homicide; female involvement; and the effects of gang presence on communities and non-gang youth.
- Survey of School-Based Gang Prevention and Intervention Programs (HTML)
- Research conducted by Gottfredson Associates for OJJDP and the National Institute of Justice.
- Surveys, Statistics, and Analysis
- Results of the National Youth Gang Surveys, as well as statistics and analysis from other gang- and delinquency-related research, are posted for easy access.
- Victim-Witness Rights and Advocacy
- Publications that explain and support the rights of crime victims and services available to crime victims are posted.
- Violence and the Community
- Violence in communities is the subject of these publications.
- Youth Gang Prevention and Intervention
- Research, programs, and strategies focusing on gang prevention and intervention are found here.
- Youth Gang Suppression
- Documents posted here are to assist law enforcement personnel and others in understanding and battling youth gang crime.
