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• Walter B. Miller Library
  • About Walter B. Miller
  • City Gangs
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  • Collected Papers
    • Suggestions for a More Systematic Method of Comparing Political Units- 1955 Miller
    • The Impact of a Community Group Work Program on Delinquent Corner Groups – Miller 1957
    • Inter-institutional Conflict as a Major Impediment to Delinquency Prevention – Miller 1958
    • Lower Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency – Miller 1958
    • Implications of Urban Lower- Class Culture for Social Work - Miller 1959
    • Preventive Work with Street-CornerGroups: Boston Delinquency Project- Miller 1959
    • Aggression in a Boys' Street-Corner Group- Miller-1961
    • Aggression in a Boy's Street Corner Group: An Analysis and Reinterpretation -Douglas- 1962
    • The Impact of a “Total-Community” Delinquency Control Project – Miller 1962
    • The Corner Gang Boys get Married – Miller 1963
    • Violent Crimes in City Gangs- Miller -1966
    • Delinquency prevention and organizational relations-Miller 1966
    • White Gangs – Miller 1969
    • The Molls – Miller 1973
  • Unpublished Work
    • Implications of Urban Lower Class Culture for Social Work, Miller 1956
    • A Research Project on a Community-Focused Method of Delinquency Control, Miller 1956
    • A Research Project on a Community-Focused Method of Delinquency Control, Miller 1956
    • A Corner Girl Discusses, Miller 1957
    • A Roxbury Mother, Miller 1957
    • Juvenile Crime in the Special Youth, Miller 1957
    • Work With Groups in a Metropolitan "Inner-City" Problem Area, Miller 1957
    • Preliminary Generalized Theoretical Orientations to the Study of Gang Delinquency Developed from the Boston Delinquency Program, Miller 1958
    • Trends in "Delinquent Acts" Committed by Members of Eight Adolescent Corner Groups Worked with by Social Workers, Miller 1958
    • Progress Report: Research on the Effectiveness of the Corner-Group Worker Method for Controlling Delinquency in Juvenile Gangs, Miller 1958
    • Some Characteristics of Present-Day Delinquency of Relevance to Educators, Miller 1959
    • Subculture and Customary Behavior, Miller 1965
  • News Clippings
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• Research
  • Technical Reports
  • Journal Articles
    • Racial and ethnic heterogeneity, economic disadvantage, and gangs: A macro-level study of gang membership in urban America
    • Motives and methods for leaving the gang: Understanding the process of gang desistance
    • Structural covariates of gang homicide in large U.S. cities
    • The ties that bind: Desistance from gangs
    • Gang-related homicide charging decisions: The implementation of a specialized prosecution unit in Los Angeles
    • From the street to the prison, From the prison to the street: Understanding and responding to prison gangs
    • On the validity and reliability of gang homicide: A comparison of disparate sources
    • Self-control, differential association, and gang membership: A theoretical and empirical extension of the literature
    • Gangs, migration, and crime: The changing landscape in Europe and the United States
    • Gang violence worldwide: Context, culture, and country
    • Understanding the Black Box of Gang Organization: Implications for Involvement in Violent Crime, Drug Sales and Violent Victimization
    • Expand the Use of Police Gang Units
    • Gang Intervention in Jails: A National Analysis
    • Are there Gangs in Schools?: It Depends upon Whom You Ask
    • Assessing the Validity of Self-Reports by Gang Members: Results from the Arrestee Drug-Abuse Monitoring Program 2005
    • Gang Involvement and Delinquency in a Middle School Population
    • Young Women and Gang Violence: Gender, Street Offending, and Violent Victimization in Gangs
    • Addressing Key Features of Gang Membership: Measuring the Involvement of Young Members
    • Responding to Gangs: Comparing Gang Member, Police and Task Force Perspectives
    • Legitimating Drug Use: A Note on the Impact of Gang Membership And Drug Sales on the Use of Illicit Drugs
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  • Defining Gangs
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  • Crime & Delinquency
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  • Leaving Gangs
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• External Links
  • Eurogang
  • FBI
  • National Alliance of Gang Investigators Associations (NAGIA)
  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
  • The National Gang Center
  • Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
  • Street gangs