Publications
As a supplement to the documents available online, a CD containing a selection of gang-related documents can be mailed to you.
National Gang Center Quarterly Newsletter
Volume 1
Fall 2012
This issue features topics on the Cure Violence (formerly known as CeaseFire) program; Operation Hardcore, a specialized prosecution unit devoted to violent gang crimes; Street Outreach and the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model; the Massachusetts Shannon Community Safety Initiative; and a report titled Gang Homicides From Five U.S. Cities.
Comprehensive Gang Model
- A Guide to Assessing Your Community’s Youth Gang Problem
- OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model: Planning for Implementation
- Best Practices to Address Community Gang Problems
- Street Outreach and the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model
- Multidisciplinary Gang Intervention Teams
- Gang Suppression and Intervention: Problem and Response
- Gang Suppression and Intervention: Community Models
- Implementing the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
General Gang-Related Publications
- City Gangs
- History of Street Gangs in the United States
- Menacing or Mimicking? Realities of Youth Gangs
- Mobilizing Communities to Address Gang Problems
- The Impact of Gangs on Communities
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Addressing Community Gang Problems: A Model for Problem Solving
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
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Addressing Community Gang Problems: A Practical Guide
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
- Gangs in Small Towns and Rural Counties
- Youth Gangs in Rural America
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Youth Gangs in Indian Country
- This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
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Modern-Day Youth Gangs
- This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
- Hybrid and Other Modern Gangs
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Female Gangs: A Focus on Research
- This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
- Graffiti
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The Comprehensive Strategy: Lessons Learned From the Pilot Sites
- This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
- Street Gangs and Interventions: Innovative Problem Solving with Network Analysis
- Measuring Violence-Related Attitudes, Behaviors, and Influences Among Youths: A Compendium of Assessment Tools—Second Edition
- Violence by Gang Members, 1993–2003
- Gang Members on the Move
Gang Prevention
- Gang Prevention: An Overview of Research and Programs
- Gang Prevention: How to Make the “Front End” of Your Anti-Gang Effort Work
- Preventing Gang Violence and Building Communities Where Young People Thrive
Gang Intervention and Reentry
- Multidisciplinary Gang Intervention Teams
- Guidelines to Gang Reentry
- Developing a Successful Street Outreach Program: Recommendations and Lessons Learned
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Effective Intervention for Serious Juvenile Offenders
- This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
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Implementation of the Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Program
- This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
Gang Suppression
- Property Abatements—The Other Gang Injunction: Project T.O.U.G.H.
- OJJDP Gang Prosecution Manual
- National Gang Threat Assessment 2009
- Civil Gang Injunctions: A Guide for Prosecutors
- Prosecuting Gang Cases: What Local Prosecutors Need to Know
- Gang Issues, United States Attorneys’ Bulletin, July 2008, Volume 56, Number 4
- Can Civil Gang Injunctions Change Communities? A Community Assessment of the Impact of Civil Gang Injunctions
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Preventing Gang- and Drug-Related Witness Intimidation
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
- Gangs Toolkit
- Specialized Gang Units: Form and Function in Community Policing
- Solutions to Address Gang Crime CD-ROM, Version 2.1
- Strategies to Address Gang Crime: A Guidebook for Local Law Enforcement
- Drive-By Shootings
Gangs, Drugs, and Guns
- Project Safe Neighborhoods—A National Program to Reduce Gun Crime: Final Project Report
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Promising Strategies To Reduce Gun Violence
- This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
- Gun Violence Among Serious Young Offenders
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Kids and Guns (1999 National Report Series)
- This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
- The Youth Gangs, Drugs, and Violence Connection
- Youth Gang Drug Trafficking
Gangs and Schools
- Bullying in Schools: An Overview
- Responding to Gangs in the School Setting
- Youth Gangs in Schools
- Gang Problems and Gang Programs in a National Sample of Schools
- Bullying in Schools
- Balancing Student Privacy and School Safety: A Guide to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act for Elementary and Secondary Schools
Research
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Responding to Gangs: Evaluation and Research
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
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Gang Members and Delinquent Behavior
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
- Gang Membership, Delinquent Peers, and Delinquent Behavior
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Predictors of Youth Violence
- This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
- Police Response to Gangs: A Multi-Site Study
- Homicide in Los Angeles: An Analysis of the Differential Character of Adolescent and Other Homicides
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Highlights of Findings From the Rochester Youth Development Study
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
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Highlights of Findings From the Pittsburgh Youth Study
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
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Highlights of Findings From the Denver Youth Survey
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
- Early Precursors of Gang Membership: A Study of Seattle Youth
Evaluations
- Findings From the Evaluation of OJJDP’s Gang Reduction Program
- Evaluation of CeaseFire–Chicago
- Evaluation and Evolution of the Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) Program
- Gang Intervention Partnership: Evaluation of and Recommendations Regarding a Program to Reduce Criminal Activity of Latino Gangs in the District of Columbia
Surveys, Statistics, and Analyses
National Youth Gang Surveys:
- Highlights of the 2010 National Youth Gang Survey
- U.S. Gang Problem Trends and Seriousness, 1996–2009
- Highlights of the 2009 National Youth Gang Survey
- Highlights of the 2008 National Youth Gang Survey
- Highlights of the 2007 National Youth Gang Survey
- Highlights of the 2006 National Youth Gang Survey
- Highlights of the 2005 National Youth Gang Survey
- Highlights of the 2004 National Youth Gang Survey
- Highlights of the 2002–2003 National Youth Gang Surveys
- Highlights of the 2002 National Youth Gang Survey
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
- Highlights of the 2001 National Youth Gang Survey
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
- National Youth Gang Survey 1999–2001
- National Youth Gang Survey Trends From 1996 to 2000
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
- Highlights of the 2000 National Youth Gang Survey
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
- Highlights of the 1999 National Youth Gang Survey
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
- 1998 National Youth Gang Survey
- This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
- Highlights of the 1998 National Youth Gang Survey
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
- 1997 National Youth Gang Survey
- Highlights of the 1997 National Youth Gang Survey
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
- 1996 National Youth Gang Survey
- This document is also viewable online as a Web page.
- Highlights of the 1996 National Youth Gang Survey
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
- 1995 National Youth Gang Survey
- Highlights of the 1995 National Youth Gang Survey
Related Surveys and Statistics:
- 2000 Survey of Youth Gangs in Indian Country
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Youth Gang Homicides in the 1990’s
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
- The Growth of Youth Gang Problems in the United States: 1970–98 (because of its large size, the document is in two parts)
State Reports:
- 2011 Montana Gang Threat Assessment
- Florida Gang Reduction Strategy 2010 Annual Report
- Gangs in North Carolina: An Analysis of GangNET Data
- Gangs and Crime in South Carolina: How Much, How Bad?
- Gangs in New Jersey: Municipal Law Enforcement Response to the 2010 NJSP Gang Survey
- 2008 Arizona Gang Threat Assessment
- Criminal Gangs in Maryland
- 2009 Gangland Behind Bars: How and Why Organized Criminal Street Gangs Thrive in New Jersey’s Prisons . . . And What Can Be Done About It
- Northern Virginia Comprehensive Gang Assessment 2003–2008
- Responding to Gang, Crew and Youth Violence in the District of Columbia
- Youth Gang Violence and Guns: Data Collection in California
- Northeast Wisconsin Gang Assessment
- 2007 Statewide Gang Survey Results (Florida)
- 2007 Pennsylvania Youth Survey Report
- Organized Crime in California: 2005 Annual Report to the California Legislature
National Gang Center Bibliography of Gang Literature
Victims and Witnesses
- Working With Victims of Gun Violence
- Preventing Gang- and Drug-Related Witness Intimidation
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
- Victim and Witness Intimidation: New Developments and Emerging Responses
- This document is also available as a plain text file.
- Witness Intimidation
- Gang-Related Witness Intimidation