How gangs work : an ethnography of youth violence /

In the wake of the 2011 UK riots and the British government's new American-style 'war on gangs', this book is the definitive account of 'how gangs work'. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork with gangs and drawing on a variety of sources, How Gangs Work provides a vi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Densley, James A. (James Andrew), 1982-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:St. Antony's series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Gangs and society
  • Gang evolution
  • Gang organization
  • Gangs, media, and technology
  • Gang recruitment
  • Gang desistance
  • Gang prevention and intervention.