Gangs


Websites

National Youth Gang Center (NYGC)

From the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Statistics, FAQs, publications, legislation.

Project Safe Neighborhoods

Project Safe Neighborhoods is a nationwide commitment to reduce gun crime in America by networking existing local programs that target gun crime and providing those programs with additional tools necessary to be successful.

Gangs or Us

Comprehensive site that provides law enforcement and corrections personnel, parents, teachers, and concerned citizens, the assistance and knowledge necessary to determine if street or prison gangs are in your community or corrections facility. Includes how to identify gang activity, information on street gangs, prison gangs, female gangs, state gang statutes, court decisions, research links, and more. Lists gangs in Iowa.

Gripe (Gang Reduction through Intervention, Prevention, and Education)

ECGIA works to educate the communities and those entrusted to work with our youth about gangs. Suppression alone would not win the war on gangs. It must be a threefold effort of Education, Prevention and Suppression.

Publications

Iowa Gang-Related Legislation

Gangs Fact Sheet - The National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center

Highlights of the 2002–2003 National Youth Gang Surveys pdf file

National Youth Gang Center (NYGC) Publications - extensive list

NCJRS Links to Gang Resources

CSAP Prevention Works Resource Guide to Gangs - a bibliography of books, fact sheets, studies, articles, etc

Preventing Adolescent Gang Involvement - an NCJRS Juvenile Justice Bulletin

Gang Graffiti (Gangs or Us)

Gang Indicators (Gangs or Us)

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