Prevention and Intervention

We have for your convenience assembled a list of resources dealing with violence prevention and intervention. Please don’t hesitate to inform us if we have left out a valuable source.

http://www.forensicscience.net/juvenile-offenders

• A Call to Action: A Case for a Comprehensive Solution to LA’s Gang Violence Epidemic

http://www.advanceproj.org/index.php?q=/c/resource/sc/up_call_to_action

• Rampart Reconsidered: The Search for Real Reform Seven Years Later

http://www.advanceproj.org/index.php?q=/c/resource/sc/up_rampart

• The East Coast Gang Investigators Association, Inc. (ECGIA) is proud to announce it’s new program called GRIPE (Gang Reduction through Intervention, Prevention, and Education).http://www.gripe4rkids.org/
• The San Diego Gang Prevention and Intervention Strategic Action Planhttp://www.sandiego.gov/gangcommission/pdf/youthviolence.pdf
• Weisel Howell 2007 Durham Final Gang Assessment Reporthttp://www.sandiego.gov/gangcommission/pdf/durhamassess.pdf
• Blueprint for Action: Preventing Youth Violence In Minneapolishttp://www.sandiego.gov/gangcommission/pdf/youthviolence.pdf
• Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s Approach to Gang Prevention and Interventionwww.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/148_publication.pdf
• Phoenix Gang Prevention and Interventionhttp://www.gangprograms.com/
• Best Practices To Address Community Gang Problems http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/publications/PubAbstract.asp?pubi=244701
• Big Drops in Homicides in LAhttp://www.sandiego.gov/gangcommission/pdf/071016gangcomm.pdf
• The Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice (FACJJ)2007 Annual Report
• Gang Wars: The Failure ofEnforcement Tacticsand the Need for Effective Public Safety Strategies http://www.sandiego.gov/gangcommission/pdf/justicepolicygangwars.pdf
• The Mayors Gang Prevention Initiative, City of Fresnohttp://www.fresno.gov/Government/DepartmentDirectory/Police/CrimePrevention/MayorsGangPreventionInitiative.htm
• Fairfax County Gang Prevention Summit. Report to the Community: Actions and Recommendation http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/gangprevention/gangpreventionreport.pdf
• A Community Comparison of “Youth Gang” Prevention Strategies
• http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/drugfree/v1takata.htm
• A Special Report on Gang Violence in Southern Californiahttp://lang.dailynews.com/socal/gangs/articles/sgvtp2_program.asp
• South L.A. Gang Intervention Agency Playing Major Role in Citywide Unity Collaboration http://www.blackweekly.com/news/lagangs.html
• BLACK ~VS~ BROWN, L.A. UNITY MEETINGhttp://13radicalriders14.blogspot.com/2005/08/black-vs-brown-la-unity-meeting.html
• Peace on the Streetshttp://www.advanceproj.com/016.html
• Conflict Resolution Information Sourcehttp://www.crinfo.org/action/recommended.jsp?list_id=31&nid=2420
• Center for Citizen Peacebuilding (CCPB) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~cpb/about.html
• The Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairshttp://www.patbrowninstitute.org/communityprograms/gang.html
• Search Institute Developmental Assetshttp://www.csgv.ca/counselor/assets/40Assets.pdf
• United Nations Peace building Commissionhttp://www.un.org/peace/peacebuilding/
• United Nations Conflict prevention, peace-building and developmenthttp://www.un.org/esa/peacebuilding/
• Catholic Relief Services:PEACEBUILDINGhttp://crs.org/peacebuilding/
• PBS WIDE ANGLE: Gangs and Youth Violence Around the World: The Americashttp://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/18-with-a-bullet/gangs-and-youth-violence-around-the-world/the-americas/1535/
• Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central Americahttp://fssca.net/pastreports/gang00/
• Conflict resolution and peacebuilding through art and mediahttp://wherepeacelives.org/thefacts.html
• The Youth Peace Project was founded by the UCLA Chapter of Gamma Zeta Alpha and U-Can International & Associates Inc.http://www.youthpeaceproject.org/
• Youth violence & gangs – a public health issuehttp://www.christiantoday.com/article/youth.violence.gangs.a.public.health.issue/20003.htm
• Boys Who Join Gangs: A Prospective Study of Predictors of First Gang Entryhttp://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0902/is_4_27/ai_60596078
• In the Line of Fire: Public Health Practices May be the Key to Stopping the Violence Epidemic, Say UW Physicians and Social Workershttp://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/top10/line_of_fire.html
• Eradicating the Gang Violence Plague: It Takes a Village by Gary L. Yateshttp://www.tcwf.org/op-ed_archive/eradicating_violence_04_2007.htm
• Central American Gang-Related Asylum Guidehttp://www.wola.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=viewp&id=689&Itemid=2
• National Priorities Project: Analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent.http://www.nationalpriorities.org/