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Gangs :: Youth

Florida Department of Corrections: Gangs and Security Threat Group Awareness - Includes information on Crips, Bloods, Folks, People, Prison-based sets, and security threat groups.
Meta Description: [ Information and over 100 images compiled by Florida Department of Corrections, Security Threat Intelligence Unit (STIU). The STIU mission is to maintain safe and secure operations for staff, visitors, and inmates/offenders by identifying, certifying and monitoring security threat group activity, ... ]

2002 OJJDP National Youth Gang Symposium - 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.

American RadioWorks - Locked Down: Gangs In the Supermax - 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. So have the supermaxes lived up to their promise of stopping violent criminals?
Meta Description: [ American RadioWorks is the national documentary unit of American Public Media. ARW is public radio's largest documentary production unit; it creates documentaries, series projects, and investigative reports for the public radio system and the Internet. ARW is based at St. Paul, Minnesota, with st... ]

Chicago Police Department: Gang Awareness - Profiles of the largest organized gangs with memberships numbering in the thousands. Includes tips for parents and concerned community members.

CNN: Youth Gangs No Longer Just a Big City Problem - Information from the FBI reveals how gangs follow family relocation patterns.

Gang Girls - Section of Urban Ethnography of Southern California Latino Gangs that deals specifically with the role of females.

Gang Tatoos - Includes photos and typical clothes of Crips and Bloods, as well as Hispanic and other gangs.

Gangland - An e-mail based discussion list for law enforcement personnel.
Meta Description: [ Gangland: This is a Law Enforcement, and Corrections only Discussion List. This list is intended to help the Law Enforcement Community an ]

404 Gangs 101 - Identifies gang structure and its leadership, recruitment techniques, and the gang as a criminal enterprise.

Gangs or Us - Provides consultation, training, research, and links to additional information.
Meta Description: [ Robert Walker, gang identification consultant, offers a full range of gang identification training for your law enforcement agency or school. ]

500 Gangsta 411 - Includes history of street gangs, related news, gang symbols, terminology, structure and signs.
Meta Description: [ arcade games,black politics, black community, search engine, hip hop newsStreet Gang information and mentoring, help and advice from street gang members, also gang related articles, message boards, poetry, rap, art, advice and expression. ]

Gangstyle - Provides advice help and expression for gangs and their members, also accepts articles and poetry for publication.
Meta Description: [ At our street gang web site you will find street gang articles, street gang help and street gang prayers as well as street gang music and street gang art. We have a great range of street gang articles. ]

GGarner's Gang Information Page - Collection of links to gang-related information in the internet.

Know Gangs - Gang awareness experts providing instruction for law enforcement officers, educators and social workers.
Meta Description: [ Visit Know Gangs to answer your questions about gangs, gang graffiti, view gang photos or do gang research. ]

National Alliance of Gang Investigator's Associations - National overview, articles on specific types of gangs and the National Gang Threat Assessment. Links to local contacts in the U.S.

NPR : Gangs Reach Out of Prison to Commit Crimes - 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 serving life sentences in one of America's most secure prisons when they ordered the crimes. [12:56 streaming audio broadcast]
Meta Description: [ California has the country's biggest prison system and the largest and oldest prison gangs. Most are headquartered at one facility: Pelican Bay State Prison. Experts say these gangs control crime far outside prison walls and across the country. ]

Phoenix New Times: Hardcore - A series of 24 articles which profile different aspects of gang membership in Phoenix, Arizona.
Meta Description: [ Phoenix source of information from news and blogs to music, movies restaurants and the arts. ]

Southeastern Connecticut Gang Activities Group - Information about a variety of gang types, including warning signs of youth affiliation.

The Coroner's Report - Steve Nawojczyk discusses the dynamics of street gangs, including resources and advice for parents.
Meta Description: [ National gang & violence expert Steve Nawojczyk discusses the dynamics of street gangs. Helpful resources and advice for parents, law officials and educators. ]

Time Magazine: L.A.'s Gangs are Back - 2001 article overviews the resurgence of gang-related violent crime in Los Angeles.

Wannabe: - 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.