Traces the story of the landmark children's television show, from its origins at a dinner party by co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney and the creative achievements of Jim Henson to the Nixon administration's efforts to stop its funding and the advent of Elmo.
The official companion book to the feature-length documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, featuring previously unpublished photographs from the earliest seasons of Sesame Street and interviews with cast and crew This official ...
The Eurogang paradox: Street gangs and youth groups in the U.S. and Europe. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. Klein, Malcolm W., and Cheryl L. Maxson. 1996. Gang structures, crime patterns, and police responses. Final report to the National ...
About street gangs in the United States.
This book is an historical account of the emergence of youth gangs and the transformation of these into street gangs in the United States.
Based on author T.W. Ward's eight and a half years in Los Angeles conducting participant observation with MS-13, Gangsters Without Borders: An Ethnography of a Salvadoran Street Gang takes an inside look at gang life in the United States ...
Green Cultural Criminology Constructions of environmental harm, consumerism and resistance to ecocide Avi Brisman and Nigel South 6. Crimes of Globalization Dawn L. Rothe and David O. Friedrichs 7. Contradictions of Terrorism Security, ...
For undergraduate Gangs in American Society, Criminology, and Crime and Culture courses in Sociology or Criminal Justice departments. Designed to introduce students to the cultural and structural components of gang...
The K Street Gang is the inside story of how a group of self-styled Republican reformers succumbed to the temptations of power, becoming even worse than the Democrats they had been elected to replace.
From the Introduction:The overall goal of the research project was to understand the gang phenomenon in the United States.
Presents strategies to enhance prosecution of gang-related crimes, focusing exclusively on enforcement and prosecution strategies against urban street gangs.