Here are some documents you can review or download to learn more about youth gangs, effective
programs and strategies, and community responses.
Documents
Canadian Documents
Solicitor General of Canada (1999)
National Forum on Youth Gangs.
December 10, 1999. OTTAWA: 1999. [Word][PDF]
Federation of Canadian Municipalities (1994)
Youth Violence and Youth Gangs: Responding to Community Concerns.
Solicitor General Canada. OTTAWA: 1994. [Word][PDF]
Nimmo, Melanie (2001)
The Invisible Gang Members: A Report on Female Gang Association in Winnipeg.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. [PDF]
Totten, Mark (1999)
Dispelling Myths about Youth Violence.
The Ottawa Citizen, Feb. 10, 1999. [Word][PDF]
CTI Canadian Training Institute, Institut Canadien de Formation (2003)
Youth Gangs.
Excerpt from Youth Justice in Canada - A Resource Manual. [Word][PDF]
Wortley, Scott (2004)
BIAS FREE POLICING: The Kingston Data Collection Project Preliminary Results. [PDF] NOTE: Scott Wortley is working on a book about Toronto youth gangs. He is making a presentation to the American
Society of Criminologists in November 2005 about his research.
Brown, Maureen (2004)
In Their Own Voices: African Canadians In The Greater Toronto Area Share Experiences Of Police
Profiling.
Commissioned by the African Canadian Community Coalition on Racial Profiling. March 2004. [PDF]
Brown, Maureen (2004)
We are Not Alone: Police Racial Profiling in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Commissioned by the African Canadian Community Coalition on Racial Profiling. March 2004. [PDF]
Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) (2003)
FSIN Alter-Natives to Non-Violence Report: Aboriginal Youth Gangs Exploration: A community development process. [PDF]
Note: this is an earlier draft of the report. The full and final report is available for purchase from FSIN http://www.fsin.com/index.html
Solicitor General of Canada (1995)
School-Based Violence Prevention In Canada: Results Of A National Survey Of Policies And Programs.
Written by David M. Day, Carol A. Golench, Jyl MacDougall , Cheryl A. Beals-Gonzaléz from Earlscourt Child and Family Centre. Toronto, Ontario [PDF]
Peaceful Communities Steering Group (1992)
Report on Violence Prevention Research in Peterborough City and County.
An example of a community-wide survey and community planning process. [PDF]
Documents from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs,
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and other Department of Justice programs.
Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook for Community Action (2002).
Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta, Georgia. June 2002 (Revision)