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Hunt, Geoffrey; Joe-Laidler, Karen; MacKenzie, Kathleen – Youth & Society, 2005
A growing body of research challenges the popular characterization that young mothers are bad mothers. This article focuses on a group of girls and young women who were pregnant or mothers and who were engaged in a risky lifestyle through their heavy involvement in gangs, partying, and drinking. The authors examine the impact of the process of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Pregnancy, Mothers, Juvenile Gangs
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Nielsen, Stephen – NASSP Bulletin, 1992
Juvenile gang activity is not limited to low-income, inner-city youth. In February 1990, suburban Santa Rosa (California) junior high school curbed emergent gang-related activities on campus. Action plan depended on positive school climate emphasizing safety and security, early identification of gang members and possible recruits, intervention…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Intervention, Junior High Schools, Juvenile Gangs
Martinez, Douglas R. – Agenda, 1978
Among the causes of boredom among Hispanic youth which sometimes leads to the formation of juvenile gangs are the lack of jobs in the barrio, the stereotyping of Chicano youth as delinquents, the lack of educational opportunities, and the practice of police authorities of tracking Hispanic youths and creating "records" for them. (NQ)
Descriptors: Community Role, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention, Identification
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Lopez, Jose; Mirande, Alfredo – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 1990
Orange County's public policy responses to youth gangs have involved overt suppression or educational interventions directed at ethnic minorities, particularly Chicanos. Such approaches overlook the multiethnic nature of gang violence and ignore the problem's roots--emerging economic, demographic, and residential patterns that produce…
Descriptors: De Facto Segregation, Ethnic Bias, Ethnic Stereotypes, Juvenile Gangs
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Burke, Jim – Educational Leadership, 1991
A California English teacher explores the school safety issue for both innercity and suburban high schools students. Wearing certain sports team jackets can place kids in danger; girls degrade themselves by keeping gang members' drugs and guns in their lockers. Schools can help reclaim the "Great Disconnected" by developing…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Clothing, High Schools, Intervention
Schwartz, Audrey J. – 1988
Although viable leadership models for schools with differing social contexts are in great demand, empirical studies of high school principals have not produced consistent results. This paper summarizes part of a larger project designed to identify leadership behaviors of principals in "gang-impacted" and other secondary schools. The…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, High Schools, Hispanic Americans, Juvenile Gangs
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Evans, Judy P.; Taylor, Jerome – Journal of Black Psychology, 1995
Reviews the theory of reasoned action to demonstrate how it can be applied to understanding gang violence, and illustrates its potential applicability to a pilot sample of 30 contemporary and 18 earlier gangs living in a large metropolitan community. Results indicate this theory has been helpful in explaining higher levels of violence in…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Theories, Comparative Analysis, Delinquency
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. – 1983
These hearings open with introductory statements detailing the nature of the gang violence problem and legal precedents for federal intervention. Proceedings from the Los Angeles hearings include testimony by a county supervisor, disrict attorneys, a former gang member, the executive director of the Community Youth Gang Services, and the director…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Crime Prevention, Delinquency, Federal Aid
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Staiger, Annegret – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2005
A daily war is waged in schools all over the United States over wall space. Adolescents are using school walls to convey messages, create name recognition, slander each other, or for claiming territorial space. On the other side is the school administration, which paints over and erases these unsanctioned claims to space, power and identity, as it…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Ethnography, Urban Schools, Aggression
California State Legislature, Sacramento. Senate. – 1997
This document presents public testimony given at the town hall meeting held by California State Senator Teresa P. Hughes in Hawthorne, California in the state's 25th senatorial district on September 23, 1996. The meeting examined school safety programs that had been successful. A panel of elected officials, policy makers, researchers, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Juvenile Gangs, Partnerships in Education, Prevention
Trostle, Lawrence C. – 1992
Some adolescent Hispanic gang members in East Los Angeles call themselves Stoners, a reference to heavy illegal substance abuse. Stoners are distinguished from other gang members by their acquaintance with the occult sciences and Satanism. This book begins with a literature review covering traditional gangs and their subcultures in the 19th and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Demography, Educational Attainment
California State Legislature, Sacramento. Senate. – 1993
On June 29, 1993, a Senate Task Force on School Violence hearing was held at the California State capitol. The hearing examined the issues of violence on school campuses. Victims of campus crime, relatives of murdered students, administrators, law enforcers involved in campus safety, and students who themselves committed crimes in school spoke at…
Descriptors: Busing, Crime Prevention, Discipline Problems, Elementary Secondary Education
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1994
This document provides guidelines for gang awareness and prevention in the California school system. It is based on the belief that inservice training programs help school staff recognize early signs of gang activity, a necessary step to intervention. Following the introduction, chapter 1 offers descriptive information on gangs and their members,…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Conflict Resolution, Discipline Problems, Early Intervention
Miller, Walter B. – 2001
For many decades communities have been troubled by the criminal activities of youth gangs. This report looks at almost 30 years of information collected on gang problems in nearly 4,000 communities. The number of localities reporting gang problems increased between the 1970s and the 1990s, representing a tenfold increase in the number of cities…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Illegal Drug Use, Juvenile Gangs, Juvenile Justice
Sandling, Amy M. – School Business Affairs, 1999
Mentoring students via programs such as HOSTS (Helping One Student to Succeed) helps kids avoid or tackle problems associated with substance abuse, pregnancy, gangs, and academic and social failure. A Dupont-sponsored program in Wilmington, Delaware, has helped students improve relationships with peers and adults. (MLH)
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Dropout Prevention, Drug Use, High Risk Students
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