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- McCarthy’s citywide gang audit, completed in May, shows that Chicago now has 59 active street gangs with 625 factions. That’s up from 500 factions and 68 gangs in 2003. This continued fracturing of the local gangs, McCarthy believes, is the reason for the rash of recent violence.
www.chicagomag.com/city-life/october-2012/chicago-gang-factions-breaking-the-gang-violence-equation/
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The nature of gang violence in Chicago has been changing, but policies and practices toward it have not. This was the main conclusion of “The Fracturing of Gangs Conference,” held at the Great Cities Institute in Spring 2018.
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Aug 30, 2019 · How have the fracturing of gangs and other changes in gang structure affect today’s patterns of violence? How do gang structures and motives for violence differ by neighborhood? What do these changes mean for public policy and violence intervention?
Jan 29, 2019 · The nature of gang violence in Chicago has been changing, but policies and practices toward it have not. This was the main conclusion of “The Fracturing of Gangs Conference,” held at the Great Cities Institute in Spring 2018.
Jan 1, 2019 · The Fracturing of Gangs and Violence in Chicago: A Research-Based Reorientation of Violence Prevention and Intervention Policy. Author (s) Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago. Date Published. 2019. Length. 28 pages. Publication Series. About Gangs, Crime and Violence, Prevention and Intervention, Youth. Description.
Jul 31, 2020 · The gangs in Chicago have transformed from large cross-neighborhood gang nations or street organizations that fell under centralized leadership hierarchies. Today, we have independent neighborhood groups that don’t belong to any kind of broader cross-neighborhood type of street organization.
Apr 16, 2019 · Gangs in Chicago have changed dramatically in recent years, but our violence intervention strategies have not. The old hierarchical super-gangs, fighting citywide over control of drug trafficking, are largely gone.
The Great Cities Institute at UIC has released its report on the Fracturing of Gangs and Violence in Chicago: A Research-Based Reorientation of Violence Prevention and Intervention Policy.
