Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s (OJJDP) Comprehensive Community-Wide Approach to Gang Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression Program (United States)
Axios
Policing
Problems addressed
Crime and delinquency (multiple types)
Implication in violent groups
Effectiveness

Effective

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Effective

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Life periods served
Teenagers (14 to 17 years)
Where the program was applied
Community (streets or community centers)
Country of application
United States
Description

This is an integrated program for gangs focused on young people, their families, and the groups involved. The aim is to reduce crime and recidivism among young people who are socially vulnerable or involved in violent groups. To this end, the intervention includes five strategies:
1) Community mobilization;
2) Social intervention;
3) Offering social opportunities;
4) Social control;
5) Organizational development.
A team of police officers, probation supervisors, social workers, and social movement leaders offer intervention and social control services.

Impact evaluations

An impact evaluation showed an 18% reduction in arrest levels over a 4-year period and a 10.4% reduction in crime in the neighborhoods that received the program’s intervention. The study suggests that multifaceted cross-sector interventions involving both prevention and repression efforts are effective to reduce gang crime [1].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Spergel, IA, Sosa, RV, & Wa, KM (2002). Avaliação do programa de intervenção mesa gang (MGIP) . Escola de Administração de Serviço Social, Universidade de Chicago.

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