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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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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New York
Columbia University Press
2012
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| En: | Año: 2012 |
| Acceso en línea: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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| Parallel Edition: | No electrónico
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| Sumario: | 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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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Descripción Física: | Online-Ressource (404 p) |
| ISBN: | 9780231158664 |