Gang Life in Two Cities: An Insider's Journey
Refusing to cast gangs in solely criminal terms, Robert J. Durán, a former gang member turned scholar, recasts such groups as an adaptation to the racial oppression of colonization in the American Southwest. Developing a paradigm rooted in ethnographic research and almost two decades of direct exper...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
2012
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| In: | Year: 2012 |
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| Summary: | Refusing to cast gangs in solely criminal terms, Robert J. Durán, a former gang member turned scholar, recasts such groups as an adaptation to the racial oppression of colonization in the American Southwest. Developing a paradigm rooted in ethnographic research and almost two decades of direct experience with gangs, Durán completes the first-ever study to follow so many marginalized groups so intensely for so long, revealing their core characteristics, behavior, and activities within two unlikely American cities.Durán spent five years in Denver, Colorado, and Ogden, Utah, conducting 145 interv |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (404 p) |
| ISBN: | 9780231158664 |