What is Gang Violence?

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Rough Draft: Evaluating community, family, and school risk factors to prevent youth gang involvement, violence, and victimization

Overview

This article will include an introduction section that describes the nature of youth violence and the extent of the problem. It will also provide a thesis statement that explains and states the article's key purpose, which is to evaluate all the risk factors that can lead to youth gang involvement and violence and identify preventive strategies to reduce youth gang involvement and address violence issues. The body of the article will describe the impact of community, family and school risk factors and explain how Individual, relationship, community and societal-based prevention strategies can prevent youth and involvement and violence. Finally, the conclusion will wrap up the content and context in the article to summarize the result of the evaluation and outline how Individual, relationship, community and societal prevention strategies prevent youth gang involvement and reduce violence.

Structure of the article:

i. Introduction

ii. The extent of the problem

iii. Community risk factors

iv. Family risk factors

v. School Risk factors

vi. Prevention

vii. Individual-based prevent strategies

viii. Relationship-base prevent strategies

ix. Community-based prevention strategies

x. Societal-based prevention strategies

xi. Conclusion

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