The Prosocial Gang: Implementing Aggression Replacement Training
An effective gang intervention programme, Aggression Replacement Training (ART), is the subject of this book. Rearrest rates and other outcome results support the success of a project using the ART intervention approach with a series of very aggressive juvenile gangs in New York.\ Working with gangs as a unit, the goal was not only to teach them anger control and other skills, but to do so in such a way that their real-world reference group (the gang) was turned, as much as possible, into a...
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An effective gang intervention programme, Aggression Replacement Training (ART), is the subject of this book. Rearrest rates and other outcome results support the success of a project using the ART intervention approach with a series of very aggressive juvenile gangs in New York. Working with gangs as a unit, the goal was not only to teach them anger control and other skills, but to do so in such a way that their real-world reference group (the gang) was turned, as much as possible, into a prosocial rather than an antisocial support group. In addition, the book provides a thorough introduction to the history of gangs, current gang demographics, gang aggression and its etiology, and more.
PrefacePt. IIntroduction1Gangs in the United States32Gang Aggression13Pt. IIGang Intervention3An Historical Review254Aggression Replacement Training: Background and Procedures465Aggression Replacement Training: Evaluations of Effectiveness64Pt. IIIThe Aggression Replacement Training Prosocial Gang Program6Gangs in the Hood757The Program: Management and Evaluation85Pt. IVFuture Perspectives8Future Perspectives: Enhancing Generalization of Gain99References107Author Index115Subject Index119About the Authors123
