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Youth gangs and community intervention: research, practice, and evidence
Although a range of program and policy responses to youth gangs exist, most are largely based on suppression, implemented by the police or other criminal justice agencies. Less attention and fewer resources have been directed to prevention and intervention strategies that draw on the participation of community organizations, schools, and social service agencies in the neighborhoods in which gangs operate. Also underemphasized is the importance of integrating such approaches at the local level. In this volume, leading researchers discuss effective intervention among youth gangs, focusing on the ideas behind, approaches to, and evidence about the effectiveness of community-based, youth gang interventions. Treating community as a crucial unit of analysis and action, these essays reorient our understanding of gangs and the measures undertaken to defeat them. They emphasize the importance of community, both as a context that shapes opportunity and as a resource that promotes positive youth engagement. Covering key themes and debates, this book explores the role of social capital and collective efficacy in informing youth gang intervention and evaluation, the importance of focusing on youth development within the context of community opportunities and pressures, and the possibilities of better linking research, policy, and practice when responding to youth gangs, among other critical issues
Moving toward Integration: The Past and Future of Fair Housing. By Richard H. Sander, Yana A. Kucheva, and Jonathan M. Zasloff. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. xvii+587. $39.95
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 125, Heft 2, S. 616-619
ISSN: 1537-5390
Poverty Policy, the Market, and the Metropolis
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 93, Heft 2, S. 340-356
ISSN: 1537-5404
Do‐it‐yourself democracy: The rise of the public engagement industry. Caroline W.Lee. Oxford University Press, New York, 2015. 304 pp. $29.95 (cloth)
In: Governance: an international journal of policy and administration, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 160-161
ISSN: 1468-0491
Between the Idea and the Reality: Public Housing Reform and the Further Marginalization of the Poor
In: City & community: C & C, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 372-375
ISSN: 1540-6040
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. By Matthew Desmond. New York: Crown Publishers, 2016. $28.00 (cloth)
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 90, Heft 3, S. 577-581
ISSN: 1537-5404
Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities. By Lawrence J. Vale. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xvi+428. $27.50 (paper)
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 119, Heft 6, S. 1788-1789
ISSN: 1537-5390
Integration and Exclusion: Urban Poverty, Public Housing Reform, and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Restructuring
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 647, Heft 1, S. 237-267
ISSN: 1552-3349
Much contemporary policy seeking to address the problems of urban poverty and the failures of public housing focuses on deconcentrating poverty through the relocation of public housing residents to less-poor neighborhoods or by replacing large public housing complexes with mixed-income developments. Lying behind these efforts is a set of generally integrationist goals, aiming to remove public housing residents from contexts of isolation and concentrated disadvantage and settle them in safer, healthier, and more supportive environments that better connect them to resources, relationships, and opportunities. Although some of the goals of these efforts are being met, the broader integrationist goals are proving elusive. Focusing on the mixed-income component of Chicago's Plan for Transformation—the most ambitious effort to remake public housing in the country—this article argues that a range of institutional actors (including developers, property management, community-based organizations, and the housing authority) and organizational behaviors (around design, service provision, intervention, deliberation, and representation) shape dynamics that reproduce exclusion and work against the integrationist goals of these policies.
Smallville: Institutionalizing Community in Twenty-First-Century America. By Carl Milofsky . Medford, MA: Tufts University Press, 2008. Pp. 312. $35.00 (cloth)
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 84, Heft 3, S. 526-529
ISSN: 1537-5404
Toward a theory of change in community-based practice with youth: A case-study exploration
In: Children and youth services review: an international multidisciplinary review of the welfare of young people, Band 31, Heft 10, S. 1127-1134
ISSN: 0190-7409
Building community capacity for children, youth and families
In: Children Australia, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 31-38
ISSN: 2049-7776
Communities have long been seen as of central importance to individuals and families, and as critical lever for change. In recent years, the emphasis on community as an organizing principle to address a range of social problems and developmental needs of children and families has been increasing. This paper explores the question of why community is important for children and families, what communities can provide for their well-being, and how they might be strengthened. It outlines some of the reasons behind the interest in community as a locus for policy and practice, explores the idea of 'community capacity' and how to build it, and distills the principal strategies used by contemporary efforts to build capacity in disadvantaged communities. Finally, it examines both the promise and the limitations of a community capacity framework as an orientation toward social change and as an approach for addressing the needs of disadvantaged children and families.
Racial Diversity and Social Capital: Equality and Community in America. By Rodney E. Hero. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 218. $62.00 (cloth); $22.99 (paper)
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 82, Heft 4, S. 749-752
ISSN: 1537-5404
Resilience, Community, and Resilient Communities: Conditioning Contexts and Collective Action
In: Child Care in Practice, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 65-74
ISSN: 1476-489X