Acknowledgments
Aline K. Major and Arlen Egley, Jr., Ph.D., are Research Associates with the National Youth Gang Center (NYGC), which is operated for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) by the Institute for Intergovernmental Research in Tallahassee, Florida. James C. Howell, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Researcher with NYGC. Barbara Mendenhall is the Assistant Director and Troy Armstrong, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for Delinquency and Crime Policy Studies at California State University, Sacramento.
The authors would like to thank the members of the Indian Country Survey Advisory Group for their invaluable direction and input, including Chief Allan, Legislative Associate, National Congress of American Indians; Laura Ansera, Tribal Youth Program Manager, OJJDP; Todd Araujo, Deputy Director, Office of Tribal Justice, U.S. Department of Justice; Frank Canizales, Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Roman Duran, First Vice President, National American Indian Court Judges Association; Norena Henry, Director, American Indian and Alaska Native Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice; Velma Mason, Ph.D., Director, Office for Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior; Peter Maybee, Executive Officer, Office of Law Enforcement Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior; Ada Pecos Melton, President, American Indian Development Associates; Dave Nicholas, Office of Law Enforcement Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior; Arlene Wise, Office for Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior; and Emily Wright, Office of Public and Indian Housing, Office of Native American Programs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The authors are grateful to NYGC Director John Moore, other NYGC staff, and Norena Henry for their valuable review of earlier versions of this Bulletin. The authors also would like to thank Phelan Wyrick, Ph.D., Gang Program Coordinator, OJJDP, for making substantive contributions to this publication, and Jonathan Witte of the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse for his skillful editing of the manuscript. In addition, the authors gratefully acknowledge staff from MGT of America for their assistance in data collection and data entry and Charlene White, Institute for Intergovernmental Research, and Randrick Kimo Souza, Mesa Gang Intervention Project (Arizona), for their assistance in contacting survey recipients. Finally, the authors would like to thank the tribal and law enforcement representatives who responded to the survey.
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