Gang Prevention Strategies

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Question 1 There are many strategies that have activated to control the amount of youths joining a gang. However, the most effective approach to this problem is a two pronged prevention system. A primary prevention strategy is directed at a community’s general population while a secondary prevention strategy targets youths between the ages of 7 and 14 who are at a high risk of joining a gang. “Prevention efforts are undertaken by law enforcement departments around the country” (Hess, 2013) include seven points. These seven points are participating in community awareness campaigns, contacting the parents of peripheral gang members to alert them that alert them that their children are involved in gang activities, sponsoring in gang hotlines to …show more content…

In order to control this growing problem our police departments across the country need to be trained in how to prepare and respond to cyberbullying, community involvement in campus safety, and engaging youth through volunteerism. These include the use of metal detectors, the presence of security guards on campus, rules and regulations regarding student conduct and dress, profiling of potentially violent students, anti-bullying instructional programs, and counseling and mediation. Which of these approaches work? Which will reduce the incidence of violence in our schools and alleviate the fears of parents and children? How can school and district administrators choose among the myriad possibilities, and how can they know where to allocate precious resources? (Rand.org, 2016). The only way to control this problem and answer those questions is to provide the correct training to our officers and school teachers and administrators to effectively make an impact on this problem. Question …show more content…

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled to allow random drug tests for all middle school and high school students participating in competitive extracurricular activities. Not all schools test for drugs, and the schools that do test for drugs only test randomly among athletes. Most test are completed by testing urine, the school can also deem school officials and watch the athletes to also see in they are using drugs. Some people ask why we should test teenagers for drugs? There are two answers to this, short term and long term. The short term effects of a teenager taking drugs could lead them to a drop in performance, unplanned risky behavior, and poor decision making. The long term damages include repeated use, serious problems, mood changes (depending on the drugs), and social and family problems caused or worsened by drugs. Another question that arises from all of this is how many students actually drugs? And that answer is “28.4 percent in 2001” (Drugabuse.gov, 2014). As one may see is it necessary to do testing in schools because the youth of today are in danger of themselves experimenting with

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