Youth Gangs and Community Intervention - Research, Practice, and Evidence

Informationen zum Autor Robert J. Chaskin is an associate professor at The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and a research fellow at Chapin Hall. A sociologist by training! his research focuses primarily on community organization and the role of community and community-based efforts to improve the lives of children! youth! and families. He is the coauthor of Building Community Capacity. Klappentext Leading researchers discuss effective intervention among youth gangs! focusing on the ideas behind! approaches to! and evidence about the effectiveness of community-based youth-gang intervention. It reorients our understanding of gangs and the measures undertaken to defeat them.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Chaskin
• Assisted by: Robert Chaskin (Editor), Chaskin Robert (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.03.2010
• EAN: 9780231146845
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14684-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, United States of America, USA, Sociology & anthropology, Juvenile offenders, Causes and prevention of crime