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Although a range of program and policy responses to youth gangs exist, most are largely based on suppression, implemented by the police or other criminal justice agencies. Less attention and fewer resources have been directed to prevention and intervention strategies that draw on the participation of community organizations, schools, and social service agencies in the neighborhoods in which gangs operate. Also underemphasized is the importance of integrating such approaches at the local level. In this volume, leading researchers discuss effective intervention among youth gangs, focusing on the ideas behind, approaches to, and evidence about the effectiveness of community-based, youth gang interventions. Treating community as a crucial unit of analysis and action, these essays reorient our understanding of gangs and the measures undertaken to defeat them. They emphasize the importance of community, both as a context that shapes opportunity and as a resource that promotes positive youth engagement. Covering key themes and debates, this book explores the role of social capital and collective efficacy in informing youth gang intervention and evaluation, the importance of focusing on youth development within the context of community opportunities and pressures, and the possibilities of better linking research, policy, and practice when responding to youth gangs, among other critical issues.

Gang prevention --- Gangs --- Gang members --- Community organization --- Citizen participation. --- Rehabilitation --- Members of gangs --- Persons --- Gang intervention --- Intervention, Gang --- Prevention of gangs --- Crime prevention --- Prevention --- Citizen participation

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Starita considers the terrorist threat of the transnational criminal syndicate Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, its affiliation with Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN) in El Salvador, and its possible link to al Qaeda. Starita's findings suggest that the goals, tactical capabilities, and organizational fecklessness of MS-13 make the Salvadoran gang capable of providing the assistance necessary for the realization of al Qaeda's goals and that this assistance could be provided by the cliques of MS-13 operating in the southwestern United States. Further, she finds

Domestic terrorism --- Terrorists --- MS-13 (Gang) --- Qaida (Organization)

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An alarming report on Latino crime gangs and the efforts of U.S. law enforcement to contain them.

Hispanic American gangs --- Gangs --- Gang prevention --- Gang intervention --- Intervention, Gang --- Prevention of gangs --- Crime prevention --- Crews (Gangs) --- Crime syndicates --- Street gangs --- Teen gangs --- Teenage gangs --- Criminals --- Juvenile delinquents --- Hoodlums --- Gangs, Hispanic American --- Prevention

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Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk's smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punk's angry energy to funk's propulsive beats-and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the cultural politics of everyday life. But for an American college student from the suburbs-and, one expects, for many, many others, including British youth-Jon King's and Andy Gill's mumbled lyrics were often all but unintelligible. Political rock 'n' roll is always something

New wave music --- Alternative rock music --- History and criticism. --- Gang of Four (Musical group)

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"I'm not perfect," Mateo confessed. "Nobody is. But I try." Secure the Soul shuttles between the life of Mateo, a born-again ex-gang member in Guatemala and the gang prevention programs that work so hard to keep him alive. Along the way, this poignantly written ethnography uncovers the Christian underpinnings of Central American security. In the streets of Guatemala City-amid angry lynch mobs, overcrowded prisons, and paramilitary death squads-millions of dollars empower church missions, faith-based programs, and seemingly secular security projects to prevent gang violence through the practice of Christian piety. With Guatemala increasingly defined by both God and gangs, Secure the Soul details an emerging strategy of geopolitical significance: regional security by way of good Christian living.

Gang prevention --- Church and social problems --- Christianity and social problems --- Social problems and Christianity --- Social problems and the church --- Social problems --- Gang intervention --- Gangs --- Intervention, Gang --- Prevention of gangs --- Crime prevention --- Prevention --- Gang prevention -- Guatemala -- Guatemala. --- Church and social problems -- Guatemala -- Guatemala. --- anthropology. --- born again. --- central america. --- central american security. --- christian piety. --- christianity. --- church missions. --- crime. --- criminology. --- death squads. --- ethnographic research. --- ex gang member. --- faith based programs. --- gang prevention programs. --- gang violence. --- gangs. --- geopolitical. --- god and religion. --- good christian living. --- governmentality. --- guatemala. --- incarceration. --- life and death. --- lynch mobs. --- overcrowded prisons. --- redemption. --- regional security. --- religion. --- religious influences. --- secular security projects. --- social suffering. --- spiritual.