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Violence-Free Zones, or Violence-Free Zone Initiatives, are community-based interventions for gang members and youth.Zones attempt to stem violence by providing mentorship, guidance, social development, job training and an effective environment for learning, among other tools, to help gang members and at-risk youth break free and become successful in life, crime-free and violence-free. [1]
Community crime prevention has a focus on both the social and local institutions found within communities which can influence crime rates, specifically juvenile delinquency. [1] Community-based crime prevention places a strong emphasis on the importance of peer influence and mentoring in preventing delinquency. [2]
The original program went to 13 lessons. The new curriculum was piloted in 14 cities nationwide. From 2006 to 2012, a multi-site program evaluation was conducted. Based on the results, the "program holds promise as a universal gang prevention program." [1]
Officials raised the salaries for city-sanctioned gang interventionists to $60,000 a year, but some police officers remain leery of working too closely with outreach workers who still have one ...
OJJDP sponsors research, program, and training initiatives; develops priorities and goals and sets policies to guide federal juvenile justice issues. OJJDP also disseminates information about juvenile justice issues and awards funds to states to support local programming nationwide through the office's five organizational components.
The program expands upon strategies used in Boston's Operation Ceasefire, and in Richmond, Virginia's Project Exile. PSN initiatives typically involve United States Attorneys working with local law enforcement to implement programs such as Gang Crime Investigation and Suppression, Prevention and Education, Gang Resistance Education and Training ...
The NNSC uses focused deterrence and problem-oriented policing strategies to identify a particular serious crime problem and design a strategy to respond to it. The National Network’s process recognizes that a small minority of individuals drive the majority of serious violence, therefore law enforcement needs to employ a similarly concentrated response.
The program is considered to be America's first community-based delinquency prevention program. The project started to fight delinquency at "Russell Square" neighborhood of South Chicago during the 1930s and early 1940s. [1]