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Gangs

Youth Gangs

Date Published
December 1997
Publication Type
Issue Overview, Instructional Material, Factsheet
Agencies
OJJDP

National Gang Center Redesigns Website

 

The National Gang Center (NGC) has redesigned its website. The new website features focus areas on criminal justice, communities, and research; an inquiries section for quicker responses from staff; new forms to request technical assistance, consultations, and training; the NGC Blog; and new OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model tools to help communities with their gang prevention, intervention, and suppression efforts.

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Law Enforcement Guide to OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model Now Available

The OJJDP-funded National Gang Center has published "A Law Enforcement Official's Guide to the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model." This guide provides law enforcement with an overview of the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model, an evidence-based framework that offers strategies to help communities prevent and reduce gang violence. The guide includes information on the model's five core strategies, essential elements for implementing the model...

Registration Open for OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model Training

The OJJDP-funded National Gang Center is offering free training on the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model at the 2017 Comprehensive Gang Model Workshop on June 13–15, 2017, in Denver, CO. The OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model offers strategies to help communities prevent and reduce gang violence. This training is designed for local teams representing juvenile and/or adult probation and parole, schools, law enforcement, social services, public health, and the...

National Gang Center Newsletter, Fall 2016

Date Published
December 2016
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Issue Overview, Instructional Material
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored