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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Street Gangs"”.
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Los Angeles County's Criminal Street Gangs: Does Violence Roll Downhill?
… of Investigation, there are more than 33,000 gangs in the United States, cited as being responsible for nearly 48% of the violent crime in the country. Using information drawn from gang-related court cases, this study examines the nature of inter- and intra-gang violence occurring between …
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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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'reel' Gangs Or 'real' Gangs: A Qualitative Media Analysis Of Street Gangs Portrayed In Hollywood Films, 1960-2009
… study is to explore the portrayals of street gangs as presented by a select sample of Hollywood films from 1960 to 2009. Using the theoretical framework of social constructionism and cinematic realism, a content analysis of 25 `street gang' films was conducted to (a) determine the …
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Street Gangs, Outlaw Bikers, the Mafia and the Mexican Cartels: Dynamics of Transnational Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking in Canada
Over the last few years, Mexican organizations active in the cocaine trade have chosen to stop working through Canadian middlemen and have instead established a direct presence in Canada. What factors have facilitated this decision? How is it likely to affect the dynamics of the transnational drug …
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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. …
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CROSSING BORDERS: MEXICAN DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS INFLUENCE ON INTERSTATE GANG STRUCTURE
… market through their associations with American street gangs. Findings show the MDTOs to be extensively linked to each other by their affiliations with U.S. gangs, and a high level of connectivity exists between U.S. gangs and MDTOs. In addition, various centrality measures indicate the Sinaloa …
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Splendor of Ruins: Gang, State, and Crime in Honduras
Splendor of Ruins examines the growth of street gangs in Honduras in the aftermath of the Cold War, as a flourishing criminal economy and the devastation of Hurricane Mitch destabilized life in the capital, Tegucigalpa. I examine the displacement of smaller gangs in the city by the broad community …
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Instability in the South: The Implications of Mexican State Failure on U.S. National Security
… organizations, DTO relationships with American street gangs, regional instability, possible exploitation of the Mexican homeland by terrorist organizations, U.S. economic costs, Mexican refugee flow into the United States, and foreign state intervention into Mexico. This thesis concludes by …
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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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Georgia Middle School Principals' Awareness of Gang Activity in Their Schools
… students do not feel the need to affiliate with gangs and to participate in gang activity. The study sought to involve the 372 Georgia middle school principals, excluding the researcher By way of a survey, middle school principals' awareness of the 1998 Georgia Street Gangs Act and their …
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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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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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From Street Life to Community Life
… develop and perform their understandings of the street life that they observe in their neighborhood. It involves a phenomenological investigation into how a group of eight young Black males make sense and meaning of street life and street gangs in their neighborhoods. It involved conducting one, …
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The Numbers Gang in South African Correctional Facilities: Reflections on Structures, Functions and Culture
Prison gangs stand in a complex relationship to carceral institutions. At one level gangs on the inside of prison walls constitute a reactive and adaptive response to prisons as ‘total institutions'. But in turn, prison gangs have a formative influence on life inside the ‘total institution' – both …
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Community composition, demographic change, and the impact of spatial proximity to disadvantage on violence and gang presence in New Jersey municipalities
… disadvantage tend to encourage the presence of gangs, gang wannabes, and urban culture there. The study points to the need for: (1) a clear set of strategies at federal, regional, and local levels to alleviate the deep concentration of poverty in urban neighborhoods; (2) the expansion of aid …