This National Gang Center Newsletter focuses on gang-involved girls, female delinquency and human trafficking. The main article about understanding and responding to gang-involved girls summarizes key findings from a National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) study. The NCCD study involved interviews...
This recent publication from The Office of Justice Programs and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Changing Course: Preventing Gang Membership , provides practitioners and policymakers with knowledge about why kids become involved in gangs and offers effective and promising strategies that prevent...
By Sergeant Rocco J. Lepore, Supervisor, Gang Special Investigations Unit, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Detention Services Division, Las Vegas (Clark County), Nevada Most jails across the U.S. have a proven or potential need to recognize security threat group members and gang activity in...