Gangs/Juvenile Delinquency

This book provides a step-by-step guide to gang identification, arrest, search and seizure, prosecution, and other programs that have been used successfully by criminal justice agencies nationwide. Anti-gang strategies are discussed along with the results of their implementation.

This book is a crucial primer for anyone who needs to learn the customs and codes of the gang world.

This text presents readers with comprehensive, up-to-date information on the youth gang phenomena in the US. By emphasizing the distinction between gangs and gang members, this work highlights the differences between the individual and group perspective.

This book is a unique, balanced text that includes both critical and mainstream perspectives on delinquency and delinquents. It encourages readers to actively explore juvenile delinquency's definitions, history, measurement, and theories, and to examine the juvenile justice system.

This text covers major areas of police operations including patrol, investigations, crime mapping, police operations in culturally diverse communities, community policing, persons with physical disabilities, and juveniles, hot pursuit issues, communications, gangs, and drugs.

This book attempts to summarize much of the research being conducted in many other countries throughout the world where the street gang phenomenon is currently developing.

This 3rd edition book continues to offer its own theory of youth gangs and deals with the history of youth gangs, as well as gangs in other cultures.