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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Gang members"”.
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Narratives of gang desistance amongst former gang members
Gangs are found all over the world, including South Africa. In Cape Town specifically, gang involvement is a critical problem in need of intervention. Despite this, little research has explored the perspectives of former gang members on leaving and staying out of the gang. Understanding how and why …
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Gang members' experiences of victimization and perpetration of rape in prison
… prison tend to imagine sex in prison as violent gang attacks on defenceless individuals, but in actual fact, sex in prison is more complicated than the isolated gang rapes that take place. For the purpose of this study, the researcher followed the qualitative research approach from a …
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Exploring anti-gang advertising: Focus group discussions with gang members and at-risk youth
The use of advertising to discourage gang membership is a issue that has been heavily debated, but the controversy has continually overlooked the children for whom the ads are intended to help. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the use of anti-gang advertising by seeking the opinions of …
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Risky Youth or Gang Members? : A contextual critique of the (re)discovery of gangs in Britain
… needing guidance has metamorphosed into one of ‘gang’ membership requiring a punitive response. My work examines how community agencies and the criminal justice system have responded to this shift and focuses on the consequences for young people. Theoretically, this body of work has been …
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From the Streets to the Tweets: Social Network Analysis of Canadian Street Gang Members and Their Use of Twitter, Facebook and Youtube
… at an astounding rate. Research regarding street gangs’ use of social media generally suggests two assumptions: Firstly, street gang members have infiltrated SNS, and have transferred much of their gang culture from the real world to the virtual one—a process known as cyber-banging. Secondly, …
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Breaking Bars: An investigation into how performance art as an intervention program inside prison may lead to a behavior change among male gang members in Cape Town, South Africa
… on violence prevention strategies in the gang-ridden context of Cape Town, South Africa, this dissertation looks at a prison intervention programme, Help I am Free, that uses performance arts as a case study to investigate the potential impacts of such intervention strategies. The paper …
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What Happens Next? A Grounded Theory Exploration of the Psychological Impact of Leaving the Gang
… exists regarding the psychological impacts of gang membership and the mental health needs of gang members. Of the few studies that have been conducted, gang members were found to have increased rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (1.77 odds), current substance abuse (2.58 odds), …
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Factors associated with rural Mexican American gang activity
… examines factors related to Mexican American gang involvement in rural communities. Data for this study were obtained from a larger, cross sectional study on adolescent drug use in rural areas. Survey data from a total of 746 males (373 gang members and 373 non-gang members) and 290 females …
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Gangs, Race, and ‘the Street’ in Prison: An Inductive Analysis
… investigates the practices and compositions of gangs in Greater Manchester, England. Primarily drawing from qualitative data gathered in two adult, men’s prisons, it explores gang members’ activities, how these practices develop on ‘the street’, and how they are later affected by imprisonment. …
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Emigration, Repatriation and the Reality of Returned Youth in El Salvador
… home to some of the most dangerous and ruthless gangs of the twenty-first century. Their ruthlessness comes from 1980s guerrilla warfare experience. In addition, El Salvador serves as a transshipment point for illicit substances from South America into Mexico. These dynamics fuel the homicide …
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Towards an understanding of the structure, function and cause of gang formation in Cape Town
… of this book is to assess what impact those gangs are likely to have on the changes urban South Africa will undergo in the last two decades of the 20th Century, be it peaceful, reactionary or revolutionary. A rather more immediate task, and a necessary precursor, is to explore the functions …
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State control and street gangs in Cape Town : towards an understanding of social and spatial development
… of this book is to assess what impact those gangs are likely to have on the changes urban South Africa will undergo in the last two decades of the 20th Century, be it peaceful, reactionary or revolutionary. A rather more immediate task, and a necessary precursor, is to explore the functions …
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Towards an understanding of the structure, function and cause of gang formation in Cape Town
… of this book is to assess what impact those gangs are likely to have on the changes urban South Africa will undergo in the last two decades of the 20th Century, be it peaceful, reactionary or revolutionary. A rather more immediate task, and a necessary precursor, is to explore the functions …
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QUANTIFYING GANG LOCATIONS: SYSTEMATICALLY TESTING VALIDITY USING A PARTIAL TEST OF MESSICK’S UNIFIED PERSPECTIVE
Gangs pose a serious problem in 21st century policing. After spending forty years studying them, Klein describes why we still have a lot to learn about gangs. Specifically, he suggests: “Too little attention has been paid to the communities in which gangs appear. Observing and understanding …
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Reppin' 4 Life: The Formation and Racialization of Vietnamese American Youth Gangs in Southern California
The experiences of Vietnamese American youth gang members need to be considered in order to theorize racialization and clans formation in a changing world. There are material and ideological consequences for Vietnamese and Asian American youth gang formation in Southern California, including local, …
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Situating Females in UK Gangs: An Exploratory Study
Until recently the involvement of females in gangs has been a relatively neglected area of inquiry for academic research and criminal justice policy in the UK (Campbell, 1991; Chesney-Lind, 1993). In contrast the media have become increasingly interested in female gang involvement in the UK …
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Differential Development of Delinquent Behavior In A Matched Sample of Gang- and Nongang- Affiliated Youth
… research consistently shows that youth gang members are responsible for committing a disproportionate amount of all serious crime and delinquent acts. Methodological limitations of previous work, however, have limited our understanding of the precise role of the organized gang in …
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Policing Gangs in London : Perceptions of the Process from Key Practitioners
… a practitioner perspective analysis of how gangs, gang members and their associated risks are perceived and policed within the organisational structure of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). Drawing on a large-scale survey and in-depth interviews with a variety of gang practitioners, it …
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Collaborating with Chicago Urban Communities: The Unforeseen Challenges of Better Museum Practices
… housing residents and the former CVL, a 1960s gang, to give voice to two often unheard communities. Through an anthropological and museum studies perspective, this thesis summarizes the history of museum practice as well as the history of Chicago public housing and the CVL. By conducting …
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