Chasing after street gangs: a forty-year journey
Four levels of street gang information -- A review of gang and non-gang jurisdictions -- Relationships of gang presence to city size and -- Location; the overall prevalence of street gangs -- Street gangs and other groups, youth and adult -- Street gangs defined : the difference between definers and...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Upper Saddle River, NJ
Pearson Prentice Hall
2007
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| In: | Year: 2007 |
| Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: KB 9 E 1005 |
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| Summary: | Four levels of street gang information -- A review of gang and non-gang jurisdictions -- Relationships of gang presence to city size and -- Location; the overall prevalence of street gangs -- Street gangs and other groups, youth and adult -- Street gangs defined : the difference between definers and descriptors of street gangs -- Street gang members and nongang youth -- Predictors of gang membership, prevalence of gang members in different communities and the dangers of over-identifying gang members -- Street gang crime definitions -- "Member-related" "Motive-related", and "gang-furtherance" meanings of gang-related criminal acts -- Contexts for understanding street gangs -- Street gangs are groups -- The largely ignored fact about street gangs. -- Group processes that make gangs -- Qualitatively different from most other groups -- Five street gang structures and their implications -- Street gangs in cross-national perspective -- Gangs in Europe (the eurogang program) and the consequences for generic knowledge of street gangs -- Approaches to street gang control, from early prevention, through intervention, to outright suppression -- Program implementation, success, and failure -- Concluding comments : the next ten years -- Selected supplemental readings |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XVII, 96 S. |
| ISBN: | 0131709488 |