Gangs and society : alternative perspectives / edited by Louis Kontos, David Brotherton, and Luis Barrios.
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2003]
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Theory and Methodology
- 1. A Note on Social Theory and the American Street Gang / Sudhir Venkatesh
- 2. Toward a Typology of Contemporary Mexican American Youth Gangs / Avelardo Valdez
- 3. The Negligible Role of Gangs in Drug Distribution in New York City in the 1990s / Ric Curtis
- 4. Marginal Youth, Personal Identity, and the Contemporary Gang: Reconstructing the Social World? / Kevin McDonald
- Pt. 2. Gangs and Politics
- 5. Gangs and the Contemporary Urban Struggle: An Unappreciated Aspect of Gangs / Albert DiChiara and Russell Chabot
- 6. Urban Street Activists: Gang and Community Efforts to Bring Peace and Justice to Los Angeles Neighborhoods / Juan Francisco Esteva Martinez
- Pt. 3. Gangs, Agency, and At-Risk Youth
- 7. The Algmighty Latin King and Queen Nation and the Spirituality of Resistance: Agency, Social Cohesion, and Liberating Rituals in the Making of a Street Organization / Luis Barrios
- 8. Education in the Reform of Street Organizations in New York City / David Brotherton
- Pt. 4. Women and Gangs
- 9. Liberating Yet Limiting: The Paradox of Female Gang Membership / Dana Nurge
- 10. Amor de Reina! The Pushes and Pulls of Group Membership among the Latin Queens / David Brotherton and Camila Salazar-Atias
- Pt. 5. Gangs and Social Control
- 11. Gangs and the Law / Loren Siegel
- 12. The Gang Crackdown in the Prisons of Massachusetts: Arbitrary and Harsh Treatment Can Only Make Matters Worse / Phillip Kassel
- Pt. 6. Gangs and Photography
- 13. On the Subject of Gang Photography / Richard Rodriguez
- 14. From Civil War to Gang War: The Tragedy of Edgar Bolanos / Donna DeCesare
- 15. Snapshots of a Movement: The New York Latin Kings and Queens 1996-99 / Steve Hart and David Brotherton.