Gangs in America's Communities
ISBN: 9781412979535 | 1412979536
Format: PaperbackPublisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Pub. Date: 11/9/2011
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This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and theoretically-grounded approach to gangs and youth violence. It covers significant topics of interest to gang scholars and practitioners and, in doing so, serves to prepare students to work with gang members, develop and manage anti-gang programs, or engage in scholarly endeavors. The book introduces readers to the foundations of gang studies through the origins of gangs, definitions and categories of youth/street gangs (and the distinctions between these arguably different types), national an... MORE
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| Myths and Realities of Youth Gangs | |
| Defining Gangs and Gang Members | |
| Early Gang Theories and Modern-Day Applications | |
| Gang Involvement as a Developmental Trajectory | |
| Girls and Gangs | |
| National Gang Problem Trends: 1996 to 2009 | |
| Urban Gangs and Violence | |
| What Works: Gang Prevention |
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