Malcolm W. Klein

The American Street Gang

Its Nature, Prevalence, and Control

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the White House announced with great fanfare that 100 FBI counterintelligence agents would be reassigned. Their new t...

Street Gang Patterns and Policies

This text provides a crucial update and critical examination of our understanding of gangs and major gang-control programs across the nation. Dispelli...

Gang Cop

The Words and Ways of Officer Paco Domingo

Paco Domingo is a street cop, a gang cop, a composite figure derived from criminologist Malcolm Klein's real observations, actual incidents, and verba...

Street Gangs and Street Workers

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Responding to Troubled Youth

Klein consider the quality (and quantity) of response to (and for) status offenders at local community service outlets in seven different cities. By t...

National Evaluation of the Deinstitutionalization of Status Offender Programs

Executive Summary

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Pivotal Ingredients of Police Juvenile Diversion Programs

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Community Treatment of Juvenile Offenders

The DSO Experiments

An evaluation of the effectiveness of the DSO (Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders) demonstration projects of the 1970s. These were attempts to...

The Juvenile Justice System

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Back on the Street

The Diversion of Juvenile Offenders

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Chasing After Street Gangs

A Forty Year Journey

Originally published in 2007 by Pearson....

The Street Gangs of Euroburg

A Story of Research

Placed in a fictional but typical European city, a research team responds to reports of street gang violence by adapting the widely used research proc...

Groups, Gangs, and Cohesiveness

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