Targeted Outreach: Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s Approach to Gang Prevention and Intervention, by Amy J.A. Arbreton and Wendy S. McClanahan, evaluates two programs developed in response to the rise ...

Programs that have helped reduce gang-related crimes in Montgomery County are being threatened as funding dries up. Many of the programs, which focus on youth and gang violence, have been funded ...

Less than two weeks after after the City of Seattle announced that it had been granted nearly $1,000,000 in federal funds to help address youth violence in the Rainier Valley, the City Auditor ...

Tina Padilla, executive director of a Northeast Los Angeles-based gang interventionist group called Community Warriors 4 Peace, is among those pushing for better pay and benefits for workers tasked ...

A U.S. House subcommittee yesterday restored more than $100 million in funds for gang prevention programs nationwide, which the White House had sought to cut, and added $18 million to pay for ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) announced it has made modifications to its Oct. 15 Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) Program FY 2008 competitive grant ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — A program is turning Portsmouth's at-risk youth's lives around through a gang prevention program. It’s a last attempt to save teens who are on probation. "I learned about coping ...

A group of three or more people with a common name who engage in criminal activity is the generally accepted definition of a gang. There’s no such thing as a good gang, because all gangs are composed ...

Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney is seeking more than $2 million in grants to address issues such as youth violence, ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ State Office of Juvenile Affairs officials would like to revisit next year a decision to stop funding for a gang prevention program in southwestern Oklahoma. When the Board of ...

This is an especially opportune time to consider current practices and future prospects for the evaluation of criminal justice programs. In recent years there have been increased calls from policy ...