Adolescent Gangs: Old Issues, New Approaches
The issue of youth violence is of growing concern in America's communities. In many settings, the violence perpetrated and experienced by young people is the result of the behavior of gangs. They are not a new creation in our society but have been around for most of this century, if not before. Adolescent Gangs: Old Issues, New Approaches offers a collection of chapters dealing with how to deal with gangs effectively. The book moves beyond the usual position of describing gangs and gang...
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The issue of youth violence is of growing concern in America's communities. In many settings, the violence perpetrated and experienced by young people is the result of the behavior of gangs. They are not a new creation in our society but have been around for most of this century, if not before. Adolescent Gangs: Old Issues, New Approaches offers a collection of chapters dealing with how to deal with gangs effectively. The book moves beyond the usual position of describing gangs and gang members as social misfits. Rather, the book operates from the basic belief that gang members are normal people, who often participate in abnormal behavior, in search of a place for themselves in the communities in which they live. This book examines new and creative ways of thinking about gangs and how to respond to them.
ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPt. ICommunity-Based Interventions11Welcome Home Boyz: Building Communities through Cultural Capital172Adolescent Gangs: A Practitioner's Perspective393Hope: Sustaining a Vision of the Future57Pt. IISpecialized Agency-Based Interventions874Denver County Court Probation Intervention with Gang-Affiliated Youth975Youth Violence and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Assessment, Implications, and Promising School-Based Strategies1156Energizing and Organizing the Community129Pt. IIIMental Health Interventions1497Culture-Focused Group Therapy: Identity Issues in Gang-Involved Youth1598Youth Gangs, Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in Schools, and System Change1759Pathologizing Normality or Normalizing Pathology?197Pt. IVSummary, Conclusions, and Recommendations213Index225
