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Gang presence and involvement affect student engagement in school, student academic achievement and student and staff safety and attendance. In addition to appropriate coordination with law enforcement authorities, the school’s role in gang prevention and intervention, involves keeping students in school and engaged, fostering attachments to and building relationships among school staff, students and the educational process, and maintaining safe and secure school environments, in an effort to build students’ resilience to the pressures of gangs. The information provided below is intended to aid schools in addressing gang issues and concerns.
- Government Agencies
- Statutes
- Reports
- Resources
- Data Collection
- Regulations
- State Initiatives
- Professional Associations
- Federal Bureau of Investigations
- Juvenile Justice Commission, New Jersey
- New Jersey Department of Education, Schools Security Unit
- New Jersey’s Online Gang Free Community, New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety
- New Jersey State Parole Board
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
- Office of the Attorney General, New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety
- Street Gang Bureau, New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety
- All References below can be found at the New Jersey Legislature's website:
- N.J.S.A. 2C:30-10, Causing Fear of Unlawful Bodily Violence, Crime of Third Degree; Act of Graffiti, Additional
- N.J.S.A. 2C:33-28, Solicitation, Recruitment to Join Criminal Street Gangs; Crime, Degrees and Sentencing
- N.J.S.A. 2C:33-29, Crime of Gang Criminality; “Criminal Street Gang” Defined; Grading of Offense
- N.J.S.C 2C:153-4.1, Acts of Graffiti
- N.J.S.A.18A:11-7. Findings, declarations relative to school dress codes
- N.J.S.A. 18A:11-9. Prohibition of gang-related apparel
- N.J.S.A. 18A:35-4.26 Instruction in gang violence prevention; required for elementary school students
- N.J.S.C. 52:17B-4.7 Gang education seminars for school administrators
- 2005 National Gang Threat Assessments
- Commissioner’s Annual Report to the Education Committees of the Senate
and General Assembly on Violence, Vandalism and Substance Abuse
- Discipline Problems Reported by Public Schools, Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2007, National Center for Education Statistics
- Gangs in New Jersey: Municipal Law Enforcement Response to the 20004 and 2001 NJSP Gang Surveys
- Highlights of the National Youth Gang Survey, OJJDP
- Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2007, National Center for Education
Statistics
- National Center for Education Statistics
- The Gang Problem in New Jersey
- Best Practices to Address Community Gang Problems, OJJDP
- Blueprints for Violence and Substance Abuse Prevention
- County Offices of Education (County Executive Superintendents) of the New Jersey Department of Education
- Gang Resistance and Education Training
- Memorandum of Agreement between Education and Law Enforcement Officials
- Model Policy and Guidance for Prohibiting Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying on School Property, at School-Sponsored Functions and on School Buses
- National School Safety Center
- National Youth Gang Center
- New Jersey Department of Education, New Jersey School Security Unit
- New Jersey Gang Awareness Guide
- Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
- Law Enforcement Operations for Substances, Weapons, and Safety (N.J.A.C. 6A:16-6) under the Programs to Support Student Development Chapter (N.J.A.C. 6A:16) of Administrative Code
- N.J.A.C. 6A:16-5.3 Incident reporting of violence, vandalism and alcohol and other drug abuse
- N.J.A.C. 6A:16-6, Law Enforcement Operations for Alcohol, Other Drugs, Weapons and Safety
- N.J.A.C. 6A:16-7, Student Conduct
- N.J.A.C. 6A:16-7.1, Code of student conduct
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