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Download full textHowell, James C. – Juvenile Justice Bulletin, 1998
This bulletin provides an overview of the problems that youth gangs pose. It pinpoints the differences between youth gangs and adult criminal organizations and examines the risk factors that lead to youth gang membership. Some promising strategies being used to curb youth gang involvement are reviewed. The proliferation of youth gangs since 1980…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Juvenile Gangs, Juvenile Justice, Peer Groups
Major, Aline K.; Egley, Arlen Jr.; Howell, James C.; Mendenhall, Barbara; Armstrong, Troy – Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2004
Since 1995, the National Youth Gang Center (NYGC) has surveyed law enforcement agencies across the nation about youth gang activity. Because tribal police departments were not included in earlier surveys, however, youth gang activities in Indian country have been largely absent from survey findings. This Bulletin describes the nature and makeup…
Descriptors: Juvenile Gangs, Crime, Alaska Natives, American Indians
