Full Description
For undergraduate/graduate courses in Juvenile Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Deviance, and Special Topics in Criminal Justice/Criminology. This unique text-reader provides students with a comprehensive and contemporary perspective on gangs in America. Its current articles, written by national experts in the field, contain a variety of diverse viewpoints and contribute to an interdisciplinary understanding of gangs and their broad societal implications.
Contents
I. UNDERSTANDING AND DEFINING GANGS. 1. Introduction, Randall G. Shelden, Sharon K. Tracy and William B. Brown. 2. Definitions of a gang and 3. What happens to girls in the gang? Joan W. Moore and John M. Hagedorn. 4. "I'm calling my mom:" The meaning of family and kinship among homegirls, Geoffrey Hunt, Kathleen MacKenzie and Karen Joe-Laidler. 5. Differences between gang girls and gang boys: Results from a multisite survey, Finn-Aage Esbensen, Elizabeth Piper Deschenes and L. Thomas Winfree. II. RACE AND communities, Marjorie S. Zatz and Edward L. Portillos. 7. The origins of Navajo youth gangs, Eric Henderson, Stephen J. Kunitz and Jerrold E. Levy. 8. Oakland Chinatown's first youth gang: The Suey Sing Boys, Gregory Yee prison gangs, Mark S. Fleisher and Scott H. Decker. 10. Gang subcultures and prison gangs of female youth, Rebecca D. Petersen. 11. School violence: Gangs and a culture of fear, Douglas E. Thompkins. V. VIOLENCE, DRUGS AND GANGS. 12. Youth gang homicides: A literature review, James C. Howell. 13. Gangs, drugs and neighborhood change, Jeffrey Fagan. 14. Legitimating drug use: A note on the impact of gang membership and drug sales on the use of illicit drugs, Scott H. Decker. VI. GANG VICTIMIZATION. 15. Youth maltreatment and gang involvement, Kevin M. Thompson and Rhonda Braaten-Antrim. 16. Gender and victimization risk among young women in gangs, Jody Miller. VII. GANG PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION. 17. Promising programs for young gang violence prevention and intervention, James C. Howell. 18. Gang prevention and intervention strategies of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Carl E. Pope and Rick Lovell. Index.
