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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Youth Gangs"”.
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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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School personnel perceptions of youth gangs presence and activity at elementary schools in Fort Worth Independent School District in Texas.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in perceptions of selected school personnel (principals, assistant principals, counselors, and teachers) about gang presence in elementary schools in a large urban school district in Texas. The study focused on determining the following: …
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Understanding the Service Needs of Gang-Involved Youth: Social Identity and Ecological Influences on Health Decision-Making
Gang-involved youth experience multiple forms of marginalization and are members of communities experiencing significant health disparities (e.g., youth of color, poor). Yet, research and policy narratives routinely center delinquency, violence, and legal system intervention with limited attention …
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Representing Self at a Tier One University: Conversaciones Entre Amigos
… Mexican identity. As a result, Mexican Latin youth have been dealing with the hardships and complexities of negotiating their identities within this context that does not facilitate educational attainment. For this very reason it is vital to illuminate the lived experiences of Mexican Latin …
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Partnership, dependence and protest: The United States and El Salvador, seen through pockets of internationals
… United States is mostly limited to updates on youth gangs and violence. Violence was the media draw of the 1980s as well – the U.S. government was spending millions to help the Salvadoran government fight socialist guerrillas. As they are over any armed conflict, U.S. citizens were divided in …
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Partnership, dependence and protest: The United States and El Salvador, seen through pockets of internationals
… United States is mostly limited to updates on youth gangs and violence. Violence was the media draw of the 1980s as well – the U.S. government was spending millions to help the Salvadoran government fight socialist guerrillas. As they are over any armed conflict, U.S. citizens were divided in …
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On Africana/Islamica existential thought: Don Mattera and the question of transcendence
… written on him is either limited to his role in youth gangs, even though he eschewed the life of gangsterism as far back as the mid-1950s, or studied within the context of black South African writing in English. Hence, he is relegated to what is termed 'literature of protest’. There is to date …
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Critical media literacy and students in youth gang
The representation of youth in gangs in the media has tended towards portraying these individuals in a negative light, especially regarding the theme of violence. Such representations have political consequences for how these individuals are perceived and treated. Too often what is missing from …
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Differential Development of Delinquent Behavior In A Matched Sample of Gang- and Nongang- Affiliated Youth
<p>Previous 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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Bande à part ou quête d'appartenance ? Une anthropologie de la condition des jeunes Noirs à Liège
Au départ d’une enquête de terrain de près de quatre années, la thèse présentée examine la condition des jeunes Noirs au sein de la région urbaine de Liège (Belgique francophone). Après une contextualisation socio-historique de la présence africaine subsaharienne en Belgique et une discussion …