Gangs Crime and Justice Issues

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• - Articles on graffiti, People, Folks, Crips, and Bloods.
  
• - Profiles of the largest organized gangs with memberships numbering in the thousands. Includes tips for parents and concerned community members.
  
• - Provides advice help and expression for gangs and their members, also accepts articles and poetry for publication.
  
• - Includes photos and typical clothes of Crips and Bloods, as well as Hispanic and other gangs.
  
• - Commentary and links to current gang related issues.
  
• - Symposium/Conference to provide professionals who work with gang members with information about effective strategies to reduce gang-related violence. The Symposium will be held June 10-13, 2002, in Orlando, Florida.
  
• - 2001 article overviews the resurgence of gang-related violent crime in Los Angeles.
  
• - Gang awareness experts providing instruction for law enforcement officers, educators and social workers.
  
• - National overview, articles on specific types of gangs and the "National Gang Threat Assessment." Links to local contacts in the U.S.
  
• - An e-mail based discussion list for law enforcement personnel.
  
• - Identifies gang structure and its leadership, recruitment techniques, and the gang as a criminal enterprise.
  
• - Information about a variety of gang types, including warning signs of youth affiliation.
  
• - Section of "Urban Ethnography of Southern California Latino Gangs" that deals specifically with the role of females.
  
• - Steve Nawojczyk discusses the dynamics of street gangs, including resources and advice for parents.
  
• - Provides consultation, training, research, and links to additional information.
  
• - A federal judge in San Francisco is due to sentence five leaders of a California prison gang. The men have already pleaded guilty to drug dealing, extortion and murder across northern California. What's unusual is that the gang leaders were already servin
  
• - A series of 24 articles which profile different aspects of gang membership in Phoenix, Arizona.
  
• - Investigative print and radio series. "Twenty years ago, a new kind of prison was taking America by storm. The supermax prison was designed to incapacitate dangerous criminals by locking them down in stark isolation, sometimes for years on end. S
  
• - Articles on (and links to) Latino street gangs from around the U.S.
  
• - Includes history of street gangs, related news, gang symbols, terminology, structure and signs.
  
• - Information from the FBI reveals how gangs follow family relocation patterns.
  
• - Documentary by John Whitehead about the gang-related murder and suicide of four teenagers in the rural community of Appleton, Wisconsin. Profiles the increasing role of gangs in rural communities around America.
  
• - Collection of links to gang-related information in the internet.
  
• - Provides an overview of the history and territories of Los Angeles street gangs from the perspective of a former gang member (now a graduate student).