Gangs: a select bibliography

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Number SN05264, 19 February 2016

Gangs: a select

bibliography

By

Sue Holland

Maria Lalic

Inside:

1. Government and Parliamentary publications

2. Non-Governmental publications 3. Journal Articles

4. Books

5. House of Commons and House of Lords Library Publications

Contents

Summary 2

1. Government and Parliamentary publications 3

2. Non-Governmental publications 6

3. Journal Articles 8

4. Books 10

5. House of Commons and House of Lords Library Publications 10

Summary

This note provides a select bibliography of material on gangs

1. Government and Parliamentary

publications

Home Office, Ending gang violence and exploitation, 13 January 2016 Home Office, Local perspectives in Ending Gang and Youth Violence areas: perceptions of the nature of urban street gangs, 13 February 2016 Home Office, Social network analysis of an urban street gang using police intelligence data, 13 February 2016

Home Office, Injunctions to prevent gang-related violence and drug dealing: statutory guidance, Updated 16 July 2015

Youth Justice Board for England and Wales, YOT practitioner's guide: injunctions to prevent gang related violence, 10 July 2015

Home Office, 2010 to 2015 government policy: knife, gun and gang crime, Updated 8 May 2015

Cabinet Office, Social entrepreneurs urged to apply for PowerUP scheme to help address gang culture, 25 March 2015

Home Office, Ending gang and youth violence programme: annual report 2014 to 2015, 12 March 2015

Home Affairs Select Committee, Gangs and Youth Crime, 24 February 2015, HC199

Public Health England, The mental health needs of gang-affiliated young people, 27 January 2015

Justice Committee, Joint enterprise: follow up, 10 December 2014, HC 310 2014-15

Home Office, Ending Gang and Youth Violence: government programme expanded, October 2014

Home office, Advice to parents and carers on gangs, Updated August 2014.

Home Office, Reducing knife, gun and gang crime, Updated August 2014.

Home Affairs Committee, Gangs and youth crime inquiry. Oral evidence taken on10 June 2014, 8 July 2014, 14 October and 25 November 2014 Home Office, Review of the operation of injunctions to prevent gang-related violence, January 2014.

HM Government, Ending Gang and Youth Violence: annual report, December 2013, Cm 8746.

Home Office, Addressing youth violence and gangs: Practical advice for schools and colleges, July 2013.

HM Government, Ending Gang and Youth Violence Report: One Year On, November 2012, Cm 8493.

HM Government, Social Justice: transforming lives, March 2012, Cm 8314.

Home Office, Statutory Guidance: Injunctions to Prevent Gang-Related Violence, December 2011.

HM Government, Ending Gang and Youth Violence: A Cross-Government Report, November 2011, Cm 8211.

HM Government, Ending Gang and Youth Violence: A

Cross-Government Report including further evidence and good practice case studies, November 2011.

Home Office, An assessment of the Tackling Knives and Serious Youth Violence Action Programme (TKAP) – Phase ll, May 2011.

Ministry of Justice, Understanding the psychology of gang violence: implications for designing effective violence interventions, March 2011. Home Office, Tackling knife crime together - a review of local anti-knife crime projects, February 2011.

Home Office, Statutory guidance: injunctions to prevent gang-related violence, December 2010.

Scottish Government, Gang Membership and Knife Carrying: Findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, September 2010.

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, The management of gang issues among children and young people in prison custody and the community: a joint thematic review, June 2010.

HM Government, Safeguarding Children and Young People who may be affected by Gang Activity, March 2010.

HM Government, Home Affairs Select Committee Inquiry: Young Black People and the Criminal Justice System: Second Annual Report, December 2009.1

Home Office, Gangs: You and Your Child, September 2009.

HM Government, Youth Crime Action Plan: One Year On, July 2009. Home Affairs Committee, Knife Crime, 2 June 2009, HC112i.

Human Rights Committee, Legislative Scrutiny: Policing and Crime Bill (gangs injunctions), 27 April 2009, HC 441/HL81 2008-09.

HM Government, Home Affairs Select Committee Inquiry: Young Black People and the Criminal Justice System: First Annual Report, December 2008, pp36-39.

Home Office, Tackling gangs: a practical guide for local authorities, CDRPS and other local partners, May 2008.

Home Office, Monitoring data from the Tackling Gangs Action Programme, May 2008.

Improvement and Development Agency, Tackling guns and gangs: solving the problem, April 2008.

Improvement and Development Agency, Brining Hope: dealing with guns, drugs, knives and gangs in Birmingham, February 2008.

National Audit Office, Home Office: Reducing the risk of violent crime,

February 2008.

HM Government, Youth Crime Action Plan, 2008.

Youth Justice Board, Groups, Gangs and Weapons, 2007.

Ministry of Justice, The Government’s Response to the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee Report: Young Black People and the Criminal Justice System, October 2007, Cm 7214 2006-07, pp18-20.

Home Affairs Committee, Young Black People and the Criminal Justice System, 22 May 2007, HC181-I 2006-07.

2. Non-Governmental publications

Rachel Sturrock and Lucy Holmes, Running the Risks: The links between gang-involvement and young people going missing, Catch 22, July 2015 Catch22, Gangs in prison: the nature and impact of gang involvement among prisoners, November 2014

Mayor of London, Strategic Ambitions for London: Gangs and Serious Youth Violence, June 2014

Patrick Williams, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, The Police, gangs and racism, April 2014

London Borough of Newham, Crime and Disorder Scrutiny Commission into Youth Violence and Gang Crime in Newham, March 2014

Centre for Social Justice, Girls and Gangs, March 2014

Simon McMahon, Project Oracle, Gangs, Youth Violence and Crime,

October 2013.

Juanjo Medina et al. Nuffield Foundation, Children and young people in gangs: a longitudinal analysis, October 2013.

Lorraine Khan et al, Centre for Mental Health, A need to belong: What leads girls to join gangs?, May 2013.

Centre for Social Justice, Time to Wake Up: Tackling gangs one year after the riots, October 2012.

Jessica Southgate, Griffin Trust, Seeing differently: Working with girls affected by gangs, May 2012.

London Crime Reduction Board, London Crime Reduction Board Partnership Anti-Gangs Strategy draft, 2012.

Runnymede Trust, Gangs Revisited: What’s a Gang and What’s Race Got to Do with It?, November 2011.

J. J. Pearce & J. M. Pitts, University of Bedfordshire, Youth Gangs, Sexual Violence and Sexual Exploitation: A Scoping Exercise for The Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England, March 2011.

London Councils and London Metropolitan University, The gang and beyond: addressing the impact of gang activity in the capital, February 2011.

Race on the Agenda, Female Voice in Violence Final Report: On the impact of serious youth violence and criminal gangs on women and girls across the country, February 2011.

Qa Research (on behalf of Children & Young People Now), Children and Gangs, January 2011.

London Councils and London Metropolitan University, Confronting London's violent street world - the gang and beyond case studies, November 2010.

Race on the Agenda, Female Voice in Violence Project: A study into the impact of serious youth and gang violence on women and girls,

February 2010.

NSPCC, NSPCC Response to Safeguarding Young People in Gangs, June 2009.

NSPCC, Teenagers at Risk: The safeguarding needs of young people in gangs and violent peer groups, March 2009.

Centre for Social Justice, Dying to belong: an in-depth review of street gangs in Britain, February 2009.

A. Stevens et al, Offender Management Community Scoping of London Gang Demographics, University of Kent, 2009.

British Library, Youth Gangs, Gun and Knife Crime bibliography, 2009. Juanjo Medina et al., Youth gangs in the UK: context, evolution and violence, 2009.

NASWUT, Gangs and Schools, 2008.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Young people and territoriality in British cities, October 2008.

Policy Exchange, Going Ballistic: dealing with guns, gangs and knives, July 2008.

Race on the Agenda, Building Bridges Project: providing evidence based recommendations to tackle gangs and the use of weapons, July 2008. New Local Government Network, Gangs at the grassroots. New local solutions to street violence, July 2008.

Judith Aldridge & Juanjo Medina, University of Manchester, Youth Gangs in an English City: Social Exclusion, Drugs and Violence, January 2008.

London Borough of Lambeth, Chair's Report: Executive Commission – Gangs, 2008.

Jonathon Toy, Die another day: A practitioner’s review with

recommendations for preventing gang and weapon violence in London, 2008.

Runnymede Trust, Rethinking Gangs, 2008.

Association of Chief Police Officers, Gun Crime and Gangs: Response to the Home Secretary, September 2007.

Law Commission, Participating in crime, May 2007, Cm 7084.

Ben Marshall et al, University College London, Rationalisation of current research on guns, gangs and other weapons: Phase 1, November 2005. Centre for Law and Society, Edinburgh University, Gang Membership and Teenage Offending: The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, September 2005.

3. Journal Articles

Loretta Trickett, “Birds and sluts: views on young women from boys in the gang”, International Review of Victimology, 2016, 22(1), pp. 25-44 Rachel Horan et al, “Reducing gang related prison violence”, Prison Service Journal, 2015, 221, pp.42-46

Kevin Moran, “Social structure and bonhomie: emotions in the youth street gang”, British Journal of Criminology, 2015, 55(3), pp.556-577 “Girls, gangs and the criminal justice system”, Magistrate, 2015, 71(1), pp.4-5

Alistair Fraser and Colin Atkinson, “Making up gangs: looping, labelling and the new politics of intelligence-led policing”, Youth Justice, 2014, 14(2), pp.154-170

Tara Young et al, “A Question of Family: Youth and Gangs”, Youth Justice (2014) 14 (2), 171-185.

Simon Hallsworth, “Gang talking criminologists: a rejoinder to John Pitts”, Youth and Policy (2014) 112, 35-43

J. Medina et al., “Proximal adolescent outcomes of gang membership in England and Wales”, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency,

(2014) 51 (2), 168-199.

J. Medina et al., “Measuring gang membership in England and Wales: a latent class analysis with Eurogang survey”, European Journal of

Criminology (2013) 10 (5), 591-605.

Juanjo Medina, “Hidden Behind the Gunfire: Young Women’s

Experiences of Gang-Related Violence”, Violence Against Women (June 2012) 18 (6), 653-661.

J. A. Densley, “The organisation of London's street gangs”, Global Crime

(2012) 13 (1) 42-64.

Juanjo Medina et al, “Mentoring Siblings of Gang Members: a Template for Reaching Families of Gang Members?”, Children and Society (2012) 26 (1),14-24.

J. Ayling, “Gang change and evolutionary theory”, Crime, Law and Social Change (2011) 56, 1-26.

Aleasha Cox, “Youth Gangs in the UK: Myth or Reality?”, Internet Journal of Criminology (2011).

A. Davis & J. Densley, “Life cycle”, Police Review (2011) 119 (6146), 16-17. A. Davis & J. Densley, “Gang warfare”, Police Review (2011) 119 (6145), 16-17.

J. Densley, “Ganging up on gangs: Why the gangs intervention industry needs an intervention”, British Journal of Forensic Practice (2011) 13, 12-24.

S. Hallsworth & D. Silverstone, “‘That’s Life Innit’: A British perspective on guns, crime and social order”, Criminology and Criminal Justice

(2009) 9, 359–377.

K. Bullock & N. Tilley, “Understanding and tackling gang violence”,

Crime Prevention and Community Safety (2008) 10, 36–47.

S. Decker, et al., “Understanding the black box of gang organization: Implications for involvement in violent crime, drug sales, and violent victimization”, Crime and Delinquency. (2008) 54, 153-172.

J. Howell, “Menacing or mimicking? Realities of youth gangs”, Juvenile and Family Court Journal (2007) 58, 39–50.

D. Yearwood, “Review: Gangs in the Global City”, British Journal of Criminology (2007) 47, 837–840.

T. Bennett, & K. Holloway, “Gang membership, drugs and crime in the UK”, British Journal of Criminology (2004) 44, 305–323.

R. Gordon et al., “Antisocial behavior and youth gang membership: Selection and socialization” Criminology (2004) 42, 55–88.

4. Books

S. Hallsworth, The Gang and Beyond: Interpreting Violent Street Worlds, 2013.

R. White, Youth gangs, violence and social respect, 2013.

J. Densley, How gangs work: an ethnography of youth violence, 2013.

P. Regan, Fighting chance: Tackling Britain's gang culture, 2011. B. Goldson (ed), Youth in Crisis?: 'Gangs', Territoriality and Violence, 2011.

F. Gemert et al. (eds), Street Gangs, Migration, and Ethnicity. 2008. J. Heale, One Blood: Inside Britain's New Street Gangs, 2008.

J. Pitts, Reluctant Gangsters: The Changing Face of Youth Crime, 2008.

M. Klein & C. Maxson, Street gang patterns and policies, 2006. G. McLagan, Guns and Gangs: The Inside Story of the War on Our Streets, 2006.

James F. Short and Lorine A. Hughes (eds) Studying Youth Gangs, 2006.

5. House of Commons and House

of Lords Library Publications

Anti-social behaviour- new provisions, SN06950, 25 February 2015

Crime and Security Bill HL Bill 45 2009–10, LLN 2010-010, 24 March 2010

Crime and Security Bill: Committee Stage Report, RP 10/22, 3 March 2010

Crime and Security Bill Bill 3 2009-10, RP 09/97, 22 December 2009

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