Looking Beyond Suppression: Community Strategies to Reduce Gang Violence - Paperback

by Erika Gebo (Editor), Brenda J. Bond-Fortier (Editor), Carolyn Boyes-Watson (Contribution by)

This book explores the policies and practices of comprehensive community efforts to reduce gang and youth violence through a specific conceptual framework, the Comprehensive Gang Model. Tailored gang reduction strategies rooted in this framework and in communities' ecological constitutions are showcased throughout the book using case study methodology. The results of these investigations have relevant implications for scholars, learners, and practitioners who seek to address gang violence using customized responses.

Author Biography

Erika Gebo is assistant professor of sociology at Suffolk University. Brenda J. Bond is associate professor in the Department of Public Management at Suffolk University.