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Small Town Gangs
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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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Gangs, drugs, and delinquency
1 PDF file (vi, 90 leaves ; 28 cm)
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Crime, criminality, and gangs
This project attempts to clarify the relationships between gang membership, crime, and criminality. It begins by introducing the distinction between crime and criminality, and analyzing criminological theory using this distinction. Next, it describes how these same theories view the role of social …
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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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Youth-serving agency's prevention and intervention programs for gangs
1 PDF file (vi, 86 pages)
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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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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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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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What Values Do Gangs Exhibit Within the Context of the School
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.
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Crime that is organized: A Case Study on Gangs in Chicago's Impoverished Ghetto
… the origins of and motives behind modern gangs and their agendas. The second half of this paper is a case study highlighting the different ways in which gangs may develop and operate despite, in the case of Chicago's Black Gangster Disciples Nation and its splinters, a shared history. If …
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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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Risky Youth or Gang Members? : A contextual critique of the (re)discovery of gangs in Britain
The aim of this body of work has been to explore the anti-social behaviour and criminality of disaffected young people. In particular, my focus has been on how the perception of young offenders as ‘youth at risk’ needing guidance has metamorphosed into one of ‘gang’ membership requiring a punitive …
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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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