... Youth gangs Gang violence Community safety practitioner Gang intervention PRACTICE Urban gang violence: the implications for practice JONATHON TOY Head of Community Safety and Enforcement, London Borough of Southwark, UK Abstract The article describes the nature of gang violence in the London...

... Youth gangs X‐It programme Peer mentoring Gun crime FH79J?9; JN#?j ]Wd] desistance programme: an interview with @kb_W Mebjed Abstract The X-It gang desistance programme began in 2004 in the wake of a spate of fatal, gang-related shootings in Brixton, South London. The programme is owned and run...

...John Pitts In this article John Pitts contrasts John Hegedorn's account of the proliferation of violent youth gangs with those of conventional gang scholars. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Youth gangs Violence Globalisation Poverty H;I;7H9> D[_j^[h mWh deh peace: a review...

... dominated account of gang violence threatens to delay long-term progress in making change; work being conducted with women at grass roots levels needs to be supported and built upon if we are to progress with tackling gang and serious youth violence. Key words Youth gangs; exit programme; peer mentoring...

... of their pressures, many young people feel they are trapped in ‘violent worlds’ and have developed a sense of nihilism, which now appears to be a more pressing problem. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Youth gangs Black youth crime Black communities Cultural adaptations Racial discrimination...

.... This article outlines how effective partnerships can be developed between statutory agencies and faith communities. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Faith communities Youth gangs Partnership Engagement community safety research Guns, gangs and young people engaging faith communities...