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Summary: Presents various articles that present opposing viewpoints about the reasons behind gang behavior, the breadth of the problem of gang violence, and how our ...
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Herbert Asbury presents here a vivid and startling account of New York gangdom from its beginning in Revolutionary times to comparatively recent days.Here are ...
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Despite interest in the subject, the study of prison gangs has been meagre since the late 1980s. Occasional studies appear, but ... Copyright of Trends in Organized Crime is the property of Springer Nature and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites ...
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This paper finds qualified support for the use of Skarbek's (2011, 2014) governance theory to understand the emergence of prison gang-like groups in Kyrgyzstan, Northern Ireland and ... Copyright of Trends in Organized Crime is the property of Springer Nature and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites ...
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Journal of Community Psychology. Jul2022, Vol. 50 Issue 5, p2198-2213. 16p. 2 Diagrams.
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This study examined the perceived determinants of street gang‐related antisocial behavior (ASB) and crime of young people (YP) in a deprived and ethnically diverse ... Copyright of Journal of Community Psychology is the property of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to ...
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Gangs are geographically oriented social entities as evidenced by the display of cardinal points in their graffiti, the use of neighborhood ... Copyright of Geography Compass is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to ...
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Brown Journal of World Affairs. Fall/Winter2022, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p45-57. 13p.
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El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras--have seen some of the highest levels of criminal violence globally. 5ey are also ground zero for two of the most ... Copyright of Brown Journal of World Affairs is the property of Brown University and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple ...