Summary
Implemented in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, a low-income and working-class community that is approximately 90 percent Mexican American. It was administered by the Chicago Police Department. The program targeted mainly older members (ages 17 to 24) of two of the area's most violent Hispanic gangs, the Latin Kings and the Two Six. It is important to note that the program targeted and provided services to youth involved with these two gangs, rather than to the gangs as groups. These two gangs accounted for about 70 percent of serious gang violence in the Little Village community.
Contents
1. Genesis of the Little Village Project. -- 2. Start of Field Operations and Research Planning. -- 3. Organizational Change and Development. -- 4: Social Intervention. -- 5. Suppression. -- 6. Community Mobilization. -- 7. Project Transition - Crisis, Transfer and Termination. -- 8. Individual Gang Member Survey. -- 9. Program Services/Contacts and Effects. -- 10. Criminal Histories and Outcome: Program and Comparison Groups. -- 11. Modeling Program Effects: an Integrated Analysis. -- 12. Aggregate-Level Changes in Gang Crime. -- 13. Changes in Perceptions of the Gang Problem: Community Resident and Organization Respondents. -- 14. Community and Justice-System Leadership Perceptions of the Gang Violence Reduction Project.