Gangs: A Handbook for Community Awareness - Softcover

Whether your community faces an ongoing gang problem or wants to prevent one, Gangs: A Handbook for Community Awareness can help. This well-researched and easy-to-read guide to recognizing and understanding gangs is an essential resource in the effort to counter the dangerous and often violent culture of gang life. Written by a counselor, a police officer, and a teacher who have all successfully taken measures to halt the spread of gang-related violence, Gangs: A Handbook for Community Awareness combines testimonial, dramatizations, and detailed information to help communities build foundations that support their youth and deter their affiliation with gang members.

Rick Landre is the senior police officer of the Lodi California Gang Task Force Unit.