Irving A. Spergel is at University of Chicago.
"Likely to be a basic resource for students of youth gangs for some time to come."--
Choice"The book provides a comprehensive and insightful theoretical examination of youth gang problems, related phenomena, and alternative explanations. It also provides and extensive and current description and analysis of the policies and strategies that are being used to deal with gang problems in the community. I enthusiastically recommend it to students of criminal justice in general and of juvenile delinquency in particular."--Dr. Amnon Lazar,
University of Haifa, Israel"This is not "another" book on youth gangs. It is a descriptive, scholarly, and thought-provoking treatise on the proliferation of youth violence, gang membership, gang mobility, and the mandatory responses of government, the criminal justice system, and social agencies...Adds a major contribution to our knowledge of crimingla interaction patterns and techniques...Spergel has written an organized and scholarly piece...Rich in theory and practical application."--
Journal of Criminal Justice"This book is the product of a lifetime of research and action by one of the most senior scholars in this field. The author's long involvement with gang interventions provides welcome depth and judgment in categorizing and assessing these efforts."--
American Journal of Sociology