Jun 1, 2010 · The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIJ collaborated on a book that focuses on promising principles for gang membership prevention. This NIJ Conference Panel discusses the risk and protective factors that influence gang membership as well as efforts to reduce such factors. Panelists also explored the direction of gang research for the future.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIJ collaborated on a book that focuses on promising principles for gang membership prevention. This NIJ Conference Panel discusses the risk and protective factors that influence gang membership as well as efforts to reduce such factors. Panelists also explored the direction of gang research ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIJ collaborated on a book that focuses on promising principles for gang membership prevention. This NIJ Conference Panel discusses the risk and protective factors that influence gang membership as well as efforts to reduce such factors. Panelists also explored the direction of gang research ...

Feb 1, 2001 · The data suggested that the gang unit was created as a consequence of pressures placed on the police department from powerful elements within the community. Once created, the gang unit's response to the gang problem was mainly driven by its need to achieve and maintain legitimacy among various stakeholders in their environment.

Jan 1, 2024 · Findings and recommendations cover topics such as involvement in crime, driving under the influence, alcohol and drug use, gang membership, violent victimization, and gender-based victimization. The report also includes a listing of datasets that were generated as a result of the research, as well as dissemination activities.

Jan 1, 2001 · The police departments in these two cities also have well-developed gang units and gang membership files, both of which facilitate the obtaining of data on gang activities. Although relying on police arrest records and gang membership files put some limits on this study of gang involvement in drug sales, the study reached several conclusions ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIJ collaborated on a book that focuses on promising principles for gang membership prevention. This NIJ Conference Panel discusses the risk and protective factors that influence gang membership as well as efforts to reduce such factors. Panelists also explored the direction of gang research ...

Jan 1, 2017 · The results from comparing time periods when youth were in a gang versus a delinquent peer group indicate that gang-involved youth are more violent and have fewer conventional bonds. This work advances knowledge on attitudinal and behavioral differences between gangs and other types of peer groups.

Mar 1, 2011 · Qualitative data indicated that CPD was successful in implementing the DOC process as designed. Based on interviews with CPD administrators and observations of meetings, researchers identified six main steps in the DOC logic model that were successfully implemented: 1) communication of a department-wide mandate to focus on gang, drug, and gun-related …

Dec 1, 2013 · This article outlines the themes of the book, "Changing Course: Preventing Gang Membership," which was initiated as a joint effort of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and written by some of the Nation's top criminal justice and public health researchers.