| Description |
xvi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
PART 1. THEORY AND METHODOLOGY -- Note on social theory and the American street gang / Sudhir Venkatesh -- Toward a typology of contemporary Mexican American youth gangs / Avelardo Valdez -- Negligible role of gangs in drug distribution in New York City in the 1990s / Ric Curtis -- Marginal youth, personal identity, and the contemporary gang: reconstructing the social world? / Kevin McDonald -- PART 2. GANGS AND POLITICS -- Gangs and the contemporary urban struggle: an unappreciated aspect of gangs / Albert DiChiara, Russell Chabot -- Urban street activists: gang and community efforts to bring peace and justice to Los Angeles neighborhoods / Juan Francisco Esteva Martinez -- PART 3. GANGS, AGENCY, AND AT-RISK YOUTH -- Almighty Latin king and queen nation and the spirituality of resistance: agency, social cohesion, and liberating rituals in the making of a street organization / Luis Barrios -- Education in the reform of street organizations in New York City / David Brotherton -- PART 4. WOMEN AND GANGS -- Liberating yet limiting: the paradox of female gang membership / Dana Nurge -- Amor de reina! The pushes and pulls of group membership among the Latin queens / David Brotherton, Camila Salazar-Atias -- PART 5. GANGS AND SOCIAL CONTROL -- Gangs and the law / Loren Siegel -- Gang crackdown in the prisons of Massachusetts: arbitrary and harsh treatment can only make matters worse / Phillip Kassel -- PART 6. GANGS AND PHOTOGRAPHY -- On the subject of gang photography / Richard Rodriguez -- From civil war to gang war: the tragedy of Edgar Bolanos / Donna DeCesare -- Snapshots of a movement: the New York Latin kings and queens 1996-99 / Steve Hart, David Brotherton |
| Subject |
Gangs -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Kontos, Louis.
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Brotherton, David.
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Barrios, Luis, 1952-
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| ISBN |
0231121407 cloth alkaline paper |
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0231121415 paper alkaline paper |
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