The Prosocial Gang: Implementing Aggression Replacement Training (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803957718)

An effective gang intervention programme, Aggression Replacement Training (ART), is the subject of this book. Rearrest rates and other outcome results support the success of a project using the ART intervention approach with a series of very aggressive juvenile gangs in New York.

Working with gangs as a unit, the goal was not only to teach them anger control and other skills, but to do so in such a way that their real-world reference group (the gang) was turned, as much as possible, into a prosocial rather than an antisocial support group.

In addition, the book provides a thorough introduction to the history of gangs, current gang demographics, gang aggression and its etiology, as well as a review an

Author: Arnold P. Goldstein
ISBN-10: 0803957718
ISBN-13: 9780803957718
Publisher: Sage Publications
Language: English
Published: 06/13/1994
Pages: 129
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.04w x 0.38d