NCJ Number
157595
Date Published
1991
Length
600 pages
Annotation
These two volumes present background materials and information related to the panel presentations from a 2-day meeting held in Los Angeles in March 1991 and focusing on the National Field Study on Gang Violence.
Abstract
Speakers included Los Angeles and California State criminal justice officials, school officials, and victim and gang prevention program leaders. The eight panels focused on law enforcement initiatives related to gangs, community policing programs to reduce gang-related crime, judicial and probation responses to juvenile gangs, school-based gang prevention and intervention, issues related to victims of gang violence, Asian-American gangs, community-based programs related to gang prevention, and research on gangs. The materials include statistics on gangs and gang-related violence, journal articles on issues related to gangs, legislation, program descriptions, and reports on materials