Evaluating a School-Based Gang-Prevention Program

L. Thomas Winfree, Finn-Aage Esbensen and D. Wayne Osgood
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L. Thomas Winfree: New Mexico State University
Finn-Aage Esbensen: University of Nebraska at Omaha
D. Wayne Osgood: University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Evaluation Review, 1996, vol. 20, issue 2, 181-203

Abstract: Theory-based evaluations of gang intervention and prevention programs are rare. In this article we argue that the Gang Resistance Education and Training program, as developed by the Phoenix, Arizona, Police Department and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, consists of pedagogical elements with strong conceptual and operational ties to two mainstream criminological theones, social learning theory and self-control theory. Moreover, we provide a model that, with a httle help from opportunity theory, integrates the two theories so as to take advantage of each other's conceptual richness. Finally, we address the implications for both criminological theory and anti-gang policies and practices.

Date: 1996
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