Updated 06/09
Youth Crime Prevention Programs
Contents
- About Youth Programs
- School-Based Prevention Initiatives
- Gang and Violence Prevention
- Gang Abatement
- Gang Abatement Legislation
- Information Resources
- Related MRSC Web Pages
About Youth Programs
- Institute of Youth, Education and Families - National League of Cities - Information on advocacy, programs and services, research and analysis, and publications.
- Kids, Cops, and Communities (
1023 KB), National Criminal Justice Reference Service, by Marcia R. Chaiken, National Institute of Justice Issues and Practices, NCJ 169599, June 1998. 67 p.
- National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center - Developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal partners, the Resource Center provides current information developed by federal agencies or with federal support pertaining to youth violence.
- Reinvesting in Youth, Feasibility Study Report (
1.26 MB), by Nancy R. Ashley, Heliotrope, and Ira M. Cutler, The Cornerstone Consulting Group, Inc., January 2001
- Establishing and Maintaining Interagency Information Sharing (
369 KB), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, JAIBG Bulletin, March 2000.
- Youth Violence Summit Recommendations , 2001 - International Association of Chiefs of Police
- Youth and Communities - Washington State Lieutenant Governor
School-Based Prevention Initiatives
- School Resource Officer Training Program (
63 KB), National Criminal Justice Reference Service, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Fact Sheet, FS 200105, March 2001
- Kitsap County School Resource Officer
- Marysville School Resource Officer
- Seattle Police School Partnerships
- Youth Afterschool Program and Law Enforcement (
178.7 KB), National Criminal Justice Reference Service, National Institute of Justice Research Preview, FS 000169, August 1997.
Gang and Violence Prevention Programs
- Best Practices in Community Policing in: Gang Intervention and Gang Violence (
2.82 MB), U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2006
- Combating Violence and Delinquency: The National Juvenile Justice Action Plan, Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, March 1996 - National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- Gang Prevention - National League of Cities
- Solutions from Into The Abyss: A Personal Journey into the World of Street Gangs, by Mike Carlie, Ph.D, Copyright © 2002 Michael K. Carlie - Missouri State University Faculty Website
- Targeted Outreach: Boys and Girls Clubs of America's Approach to Gang Prevention and Intervention (
334 KB), by Amy J.A. Arbreton and Wendy S. McClanahan, Public/Private Ventures, 2002
Washington Programs
- AWC Gang Taskforce Recommendations - Legislative Priorities 2008
- Legislative Work Group on Gang Related Crime SB 5987(
295 KB), Final Report Recommendations to the Legislature on possible strategies to address gangs and gang-related violence, December 11, 2007
- Lynnwood - About Street Gangs
- Pierce County Youth Violence Prevention Program
- Prosser - Mayors Message April 2009 - The Prosser Community Gang Task Force
- Prosser School District - Dealing with Gangs
- Sunnyside Gang Reduction Initiative
- Seattle Police Gang Unit
Gang Abatement
- Gangs - National Criminal Justice Service
- Gang Abatement - Center for Health Improvement (CHI), Health Improvement Guide - CHI is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit health policy center based in Sacramento, California.
- Gang-Related Legislation in Washington State - Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR)
- Gang Wars: The Failure of Enforcement Tactics and the Need for Effective Public Safety Strategies, Justice Policy Institute, 2007
- Implementing a Citywide Gang Violence Reduction Strategy (
464 KB), published by the Youth Edeucation and Famlies Institute and National Council on Crime and Delinquency - Highlights efforts in San Jose, Santa Rosa, and San Bernardino, California, February 2008
- Policing by Injunction: Problem-Oriented Dimensions of Civil Gang Abatement in the State of California (
20 MB), by Edward L. Alla, 2002 - This federally-funded study explores aspects of the California gang injunction initiatives, which employ civil injunctions to abate persistent public nuisance activity by gangs in specific neighborhoods.
- Youth Gang Prevention Initiative - Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Gang Abatement Legislation
- U.S. Congress Proposed S132 Gang Abatement and Prevention Act of 2009
- Combating Criminal Street Gangs - Senator Diane Feinstein
- Sunnyside Ordinance No. 2162 - Adds a new chapter 9.36 (attached as Exhibit A) pertaining to criminal street gangs and gang-related activity
- City of Sunnyside's Ordinance: A first Step - Criminal Street Gnags and Gang-Related Activity, by Mark Kunkler City Attorney of Sunnyside. Information Bulletin No. 529 (2007), Legal Notes, Proceedings of October 3-5, 2007
- Attorney General informal opinion by Gregory Trautman on the validity of municipal prinance provisions enacted to address criminal street gangs and gang-related activity, October 26, 2007
- ACLU of Washington Raises Concerns over Sunnyside Gang Ordinance
- Yakima Municipal Code Ch. 6.11 - Criminal Street Gangs
Information Resources
- Into The Abyss: A Personal Journey into the World of Street Gangs, by Mike Carlie, Ph.D, Copyright © 2002 Michael K. Carlie Continually updated - Missouri State University Faculty Website - This website explores over 80 different gang-related topics and offers more than 2,400 links to useful gang-related websites on the Internet.
- Juvenile Information Network
- Teens, Crime and the Community - National Crime Prevention Council
- Best Practices Database (Substance Abuse Prevention Database) - Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT), University of Nevada, Reno
- USDJ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
- Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs Gang Related Crime Workgroup
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