In 2003, Pittsburgh witnessed a 49-percent increase in homicides, prompting a grassroots creation and implementation of the One Vision One Life antiviolence strategy. This initiative has workers intervene in escalating disputes and seeks to place youth in appropriate social programs. Analysis of the program, which is modeled on similar efforts elsewhere, can help inform other efforts to address urban violence.

Community-Based Violence Prevention: An Assessment of Pittsburgh's One Vision One Life Program

History

Chermak, Steven

Wilson, Jeremy M.

McGarrell, Edmund F.

Americas

RAND Corporation

Thurman, Quint C., McGarrell, Edmund F.

Community Policing in a Rural Setting

Thurman, Quint C.

Law Practice

Anderson Pub. Co.

Community Corrections: A Community Field Approach

Politics & Social Sciences

Duffee, David E.

Social Sciences

Juvenile Correctional Reform: Two Decades of Policy and Procedural Change (SUNY Series in Critical Issues in Criminal Justice)

This book addresses the divergent reform agendas that have shaped American juvenile justice systems during the last two decades. Testing and extending the theory of social reform developed by Ohlin, et al. in their study of Massachusetts' juvenile justice reform, McGarrell investigates the process of change in New York State's juvenile corrections system because this state was a forerunner of both liberal and conservative national reform trends. He asks: "What juvenile justice policies have changed? Who has changed them, and why? What has been the effect on juvenile corrections, and ultimately, on youth?" Juvenile Correctional Reform suggests that many factors--as broad as cultural shifts in prevailing political ideology, and as narrow as the individual initiative of an agency head--have shaped policy and procedure at specific times. It also provides an important case study of an organization in relation to its environment during a period of unprecedented and often contradictory demands for change in juvenile corrections.

Juvenile Correctional Reform Two Decades of Policy and Procedural Change (Suny Series in Critical Issues in Criminal Justice)

State Univ of New York Pr

This book addresses the divergent reform agendas that have shaped American juvenile justice systems during the last two decades. Testing and extending the theory of social reform developed by Ohlin, et al. in their study of Massachusetts’ juvenile justice reform, McGarrell investigates the process of change in New York State’s juvenile corrections system because this state was a forerunner of both liberal and conservative national reform trends. He asks: “What juvenile justice policies have changed? Who has changed them, and why? What has been the effect on juvenile corrections, and ultimately, on youth?” Juvenile Correctional Reform suggests that many factors―as broad as cultural shifts in prevailing political ideology, and as narrow as the individual initiative of an agency head―have shaped policy and procedure at specific times. It also provides an important case study of an organization in relation to its environment during a period of unprecedented and often contradictory demands for change in juvenile corrections.

State University of New York Press

The authors provide stepping stones for rural and small-town agencies to make the organizational changes needed for community policing to take hold. The book introduces the concept of community policing and its many benefits to the agencies and communities that adopt it. Important issues discussed include the challenge of organizational change, as well as examples of community policing obstacles and successes, and the future of community policing in the 21st century. 
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<li>Chapters are organized to look at key issues, discussion, and conclusion. </li>
<li>Appendices include sample surveys and focus group questions.</li>
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Community Policing in a Rural Setting, Second Edition

Anderson

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