Chicago Tribune: Michael Cronin, a Chicago police expert on West Side street gangs, dies at 81
Across a 35-year career with the Chicago Police Department that culminated as deputy chief of the narcotics and gang investigation section, Michael Cronin was an expert on West Side street gangs, and ...
Michael Cronin, a Chicago police expert on West Side street gangs, dies at 81
Chicago Tribune: Judge sentences West Side gang leader to life in prison, calls him ‘boss to a bunch of losers’
Judge sentences West Side gang leader to life in prison, calls him ‘boss to a bunch of losers’
Belmont Area detectives are investigating possible links between a pair of shootings that wreaked havoc up and down the Near West Side over a few hours Tuesday afternoon, where the same group of ...
The gang problem in the United States has remained stubbornly persistent over the past decade. Here are the facts: One in three local law enforcement agencies in 2010 reported youth gang problems in their jurisdiction. [1] In a 2010 national survey, 45 percent of high school students and 35 percent of middle-schoolers said that there were gangs — or students who considered themselves part of ...
Gangs remain one of the more formidable issues that corrections officials face in managing prisons. About 200,000 of the 1.5 million people incarcerated in the U.S. are affiliated with gangs, and there is no sign that prison gang activity is abating.[1] Gangs are responsible for a disproportionate amount of prison misconduct and violence, and their presence and actions challenge ongoing ...
MSN: Inside the grooming gang: Profiles of the men behind 'horrific' exploitation of vulnerable UK teens
Inside the grooming gang: Profiles of the men behind 'horrific' exploitation of vulnerable UK teens
The Harvard Crimson: 2024 Presidential Candidate Cornel West ’74’s Life as a ‘Love Warrior’
Cornel R. West ’74 addresses Harvard affiliates and Cambridge residents at the 2023 Department of Peace Social Impact MVP Awards Ceremony at Sanders Theatre.By Frank S. Zhou Cornel R. West ’74 brought ...
Defining "gang member" and "gang crime" Localities interested in pursuing anti-gang policies, strategies and programs face the challenge of developing operational definitions for the …
On this page, find links to articles, awards, events, publications, and multimedia related to gangs and gang crime.
Gang members engage in a higher level of serious and violent crime than their non-gang-involved peers. Research about gangs is often intertwined with research about gun violence and drug …
The gang problem in the United States has remained stubbornly persistent over the past decade. Here are the facts: One in three local law enforcement agencies in 2010 reported youth gang …
Based on fieldwork done in a multi-year research initiative that evaluated the transnational criminal capacity of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS 13) street gang in the United States and El Salvador, …
Gangs remain one of the more formidable issues that corrections officials face in managing prisons. About 200,000 of the 1.5 million people incarcerated in the U.S. are affiliated with …
This study examined the relationship between youth gang membership and violent victimization among a general sample of adolescents.
Gang-involved youth are responsible for a disproportionate share of crime in communities.[1] Successfully tackling gang involvement and associated criminal activities should …
Gender differences in gang-involved youth and juvenile justice outcomes: Findings from the Rio Grande Valley Date Published November 2025 Agencies
MS13 in the Americas: How the World’s Most Notorious Gang Defies …
Reputed boss of Four Corner Hustlers sentenced to life in prison for racketeering conviction involving four gangland murders.
Defining "gang member" and "gang crime" Localities interested in pursuing anti-gang policies, strategies and programs face the challenge of developing operational definitions for the terms "gang," "gang member" and "gang crime" (or "gang-related offense").
Gang members engage in a higher level of serious and violent crime than their non-gang-involved peers. Research about gangs is often intertwined with research about gun violence and drug crime. It is clear that gangs, guns, drugs and violence are interconnected.[1]
Much is known about the workings of criminal gangs and traits of gang members, and much of that knowledge has informed community-focused anti-gang programs. It was long hoped that what works against gangs could also help build community resilience to the emergence of homegrown violent extremists, but recent research suggests that gang members and domestic extremists have too few traits in ...
A prison gang is a durable group that shares a collective identity, maintains a locus of custodial influence, exhibits collective behavior, and engages in a pattern of illegal activity. Emerging evidence suggests that prisoners enter and exit gangs while incarcerated. Prison officials have constructed intelligence apparatuses to document and manage gang populations. There is no consensus ...
The goal of this report is to explain to law enforcement agencies and personnel the features and threat to public safety of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13), one of the world’s largest and most violent street gangs.
MS13 in the Americas: How the World’s Most Notorious Gang Defies Logic ...
Get the Book This page gives an overview of one section of the book Changing Course: Preventing Gang Membership. Learn more about the book and how to get copies.
Targeted violence spans a wide array of offenses, from mass shootings to gang or group-violence-related activities to human trafficking. Although each of these topics has been researched extensively, until recently they have not been studied to identify similarities and differences in the context of domestic violent extremism and terrorism. Gaining a better understanding of any links or ...
Based on fieldwork done in a multi-year research initiative that evaluated the transnational criminal capacity of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS 13) street gang in the United States and El Salvador, this report intends to assist law enforcement agencies and personnel in understanding this gang’s criminal activities, as well associated social and political dynamics.
Five men from Eastern Europe have been jailed for a combined total of nearly 40 years after being convicted of the horrific sexual exploitation of vulnerable UK teens in Gateshead. The grooming gang, ...
The New York Times: Venezuelan Gang’s Path to U.S. Stokes Fear, Crime and Border Politics