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A world of gangs : armed young men and gangsta culture.
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ISBN: 9780816650668 9780816650675 0816650667 Year: 2008 Volume: 14 Publisher: Minneapolis University of Minnesota press

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Encyclopedia of gangs.
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ISBN: 9780313334023 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York Greenwood

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Gangsters
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ISBN: 0814789137 0585316309 9780585316307 9780814789131 0814796796 9780814796795 9780814796887 0814796885 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York New York University Press

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The effects of gang violence are witnessed every day on the streets, in the news, and on the movie screen. In all these forums, gangs of young adults are associated with drugs and violence. Yet what is it that prompts young people to participate in violent behavior? And what can be done to extract adolescents from the gangster world of crime, death, and incarceration once they have become involved? In Gangsters: 50 Years of Madness, Drugs, and Death on the Streets of America, Lewis Yablonsky provides answers to the most baffling and crucial questions regarding gangs. Using information gathered from over forty years of experience working with gang members and based on hundreds of personal interviews, many conducted in prisons and in gang neighborhoods, Yablonsky explores the pathology of the gangsters' apparent addiction to incarceration and death. Gangsters is divided into four parts, including a brief history of gangs, the characteristics of gangs, successful approaches for treating gangsters in prison and the community, and concluding with a review and analysis of notable behavioral and social scientific theories of gangs. While condemning their violent behavior in no uncertain terms, Yablonsky offers hope through his belief that, given a chance in an effective treatment program, youths trapped in violent behavior can change their lives in positive ways and, in turn, facilitate positive change in their communities and society at large.


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Gangs in the Caribbean
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ISBN: 1443852791 9781443852791 1299974341 9781299974340 1443850578 9781443850575 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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The present volume represents the first published book on gangs in the Caribbean. The study of criminal gangs is both timely and of the utmost importance to policy and security in the region. In many countries across the Caribbean, criminal gangs are increasing in number and prominence, and official crime data indicate that they are responsible for an increasing proportion of violent crimes. The Caribbean region experienced a dramatic increase in murder rates from 14.3 murders per 100,000 inhabitants in 2000 to 28.1 murders per 100,000 inhabitants in 2010. In some of the countries with compara

Contemporary gangs
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ISBN: 1280361255 9786610361250 1593320337 9781593320331 9781280361258 9781931202305 1931202303 1931202303 6610361258 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York LFB Scholarly Pub.

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The history of street gangs in the United States : their origins and ransformations
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ISBN: 1498511333 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lanham : Lexington Books,

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This book contains a history of the origins of youth gangs and the transformation of these into street gangs that often are connected to prison gangs in large American cities. Importantly, the street gang problem has not decreased in seriousness in the past decade even though the U.S. has seen a sharp drop in violent crime.

Gangs
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ISBN: 0754624102 Year: 2004 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate

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The street casino : survival in violent street gangs
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ISBN: 144731719X 1306893402 1447317203 9781447317203 9781447317197 9781447317210 1447317211 9781447317173 1447317173 9781447317180 1447317181 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bristol : Policy Press,

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Simon Harding proposes a unique theoretical perspective on survival in violent street gangs which offers new evidence on gang behaviour, dynamics, affiliation and risks in inner city areas.

Les bandes : l'entre-soi adolescent
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ISSN: 11599642 ISBN: 2220033848 9782220033846 Year: 1993 Publisher: Paris Desclée de Brouwer

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The Gang and Beyond : Interpreting Violent Street Worlds
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ISBN: 9781137358080 9781137358097 Year: 2013 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

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