Christensen, Loren W. 1999. Gangbangers: Understanding the Deadly Minds of America's Street Gangs. Boulder, CO: Paladin Press. 200 pages. ISBN 1-58160-047-X. As a former military policeman and gang enforcement officer in the police ...
out and do their thing , no one thinks to ask what it is about white folks that makes them cut babies out of their mothers ' wombs , torture young men and bury them under the house , kill two dozen or more women for the hell of it ...
This introductory text presents an overview of the prominent quantitative and qualitative data that exists on gangs.
Kendrick Lamar's Reebok Ventilators Aside from writing thoughtful lyrics and being outspoken against gang violence in interviews, another way Lamar is using his fame and newfound fortune to try to unite gangs is by creating a line of ...
Lennie 'Teddy Bear' Watkins, driving a lorry filled with £2.5 million worth of cannabis, spotted the surveillance team, prompting Customs investigator Peter Bennett to move in to make the arrest. Watkins opted not to come quietly and ...
The first recorded piece of work was a study of juveniles in street gangs in Toronto in the 1940's undertaken by Rogers (Rogers 1945), and there is an occasional reference to street gangs and youth gangs in other publications (e.g., ...
'Gangs' deals with an issue of increasing concern in towns and cities throughout the world.
... 79 Lavigne, Yves, 75 Lockwood, Anne Turnbaugh, 47 Los Angeles Times (newspaper), 86 Luciano, Lucky, 20 M Mafia. ... 28, 73,78 McCarthy, Garry, 58 Media, 10, 76–77 Miller, Jody, 36 Monk Eastmans, 19 Moran, Bugsy, 20, 21 Morrissey, ...
This book is an examination of contemporary gangs in American cities. Gangs have proliferated over the past ten years and pose a new set of challenges to public officials, law enforcement agencies, and urban educators.
It is a choice that can be as deadly for young gangsters as for their victims. Richard Swift shows us that we fail to understand gangs at our peril.
Ross Kemp squares up to the world's hardest streetfighters in Gangs... Across the world millions of people are members of street gangs. In groups they fight, stab, rob, rape and...
Exceptionally complete and more informative than any other book on organized crime and gangs, this volume explores in detail the formation of gangs worldwide, the history of the gangs' criminal...
This book is an examination of contemporary gangs in American cities. Gangs have proliferated over the past ten years and pose a new set of challenges to public officials, law enforcement agencies, and urban educators.
The research, discussion, and action on this topic has produced varied findings and results. Gangs: A Reference Handbook contains a survey of literature documenting these results. The topics addressed include...
... research , I organized a slide presentation on Mexican murals with Mario Torrero , a local Chicano artist . This ... graffiti from the San Diego gangs . The following summer I spent several days in Los Angeles and San Francisco and ...
A thought-provoking, alarming, & moving discussion of gangs & violence in the United States.
... gangs are discussed. Also available as an e-book. Egley, Arlen, Cheryl L. Maxson, Jody Miller, and Malcolm W. Klein, eds. 2007. The Modern Gang Reader. 3rd ed. Oxford Uni- versity Press. 408 pages. Bibliography, index. ISBN 0-19533-066 ...
From Triad human traffickers in Dover and ecstasy factor owners in Liverpool, to Albanian vice barons in London and gun-toting teenage crack dealers in Birmingham, GANGS reveals the inside story of contemporary organised crime.
Discusses the history and locations of gangs, the reasons why people join gangs, what life is like in a gang, and the steps communities and law enforcement are taking to decrease gang activity.
Gang life is both the starting point and the dark side of the American dream. Ethnic groups and immigrants have long turned to gangs for protection and support when it was offered nowhere else.