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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