Abstract There are over one million gang members in the United States, but effective practices and programs to facilitate disengagement from gangs are rare. This first aim of this article was to introduce the intervention strategy of the Gang Reduction Initiative of Denver (GRID), a public agency operating at the core of a network of partners seeking to reduce gang violence in Denver. GRID uses a multidisciplinary team approach with coordinated and individualized case management and street outreach workers to facilitate disengagement from gangs and desistance from crime. The second aim of this article was to report the results of a pilot project evaluation, which entailed baseline interviews with 57 clients and follow-up interviews with 20 clients. Reductions in gang status, gang embeddedness, and offending were observed, as well as positive client–outreach relationships. The final aim was to report the steps toward establishing a foundation to conduct a full-scale evaluation. Most responses to gangs are considered promising because they have not been subject to rigorous evaluation. GRID aims to stand in contrast to most of the current inventory of justice evaluations of gang interventions through a process and impact evaluation consisting of random assignment to treatment and control groups.

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介入丹佛帮派成员的生活：对丹佛帮派减少倡议的初步评估

摘要美国有超过一百万的帮派成员，但是很少有有效的实践和计划来促进与帮派的脱离。本文的首要目的是介绍丹佛的帮派减少行动（GRID）的干预策略，这是一个公共机构，其运作伙伴网络旨在减少丹佛的帮派暴力。GRID使用多学科团队方法，通过协调和个性化的案件管理和街头外派工作人员来促进与团伙的隔离和对犯罪的抵制。本文的第二个目的是报告一个试点项目评估的结果，该评估需要对57位客户进行基线访问，对20位客户进行后续访问。观察到犯罪团伙的地位，犯罪团伙的嵌入度和犯罪率都有所下降，以及积极的客户与客户关系。最终目的是报告建立基金会进行全面评估的步骤。大多数对帮派的回应都被认为是有希望的，因为他们没有经过严格的评估。GRID旨在通过包括随机分配给治疗组和对照组在内的过程和影响评估，与当前大多数对帮派干预的司法评估清单形成对比。