The handbook of gangs / / edited by Scott H. Decker and David C. Pyrooz

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015; �2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 575 pages) : illustrations (some color)
• Disciplina: 364.1066
• Soggetto topico: Gangs
• Persona (resp. second.): DeckerScott H.; PyroozDavid
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Title Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The Logic of Defining Gangs Revisited""; ""The Evolution of Definition and Measurement of Gangs""; ""Official Records and Gangs, Gang Membership, and Gang Violence""; ""Learning from Law Enforcement Definitions: The Case of Gang Homicide""; ""Summary and Conclusion""; ""Appendix: Methods of Definitions""; ""References""; ""3 Little Gang Research, Big Gang Research""; ""Introduction""; ""A Scientometric Approach to the History of Gang Research""; ""Methodology""; ""The History of Gang Research"" ; ""Life-Course Criminology: An Overview""""Gang Membership from a Developmental and Life-Course Perspective""; ""The Patterning of Gang Membership in the Life Course""; ""Mitigating Factors and Gang Desistance""; ""The Consequences of Gang Membership""; ""Conclusions and Setting a Research Agenda""; ""References""; ""6 Neighborhoods and Street Gangs""; ""Introduction""; ""Gangs as Dependent Variables""; ""Gangs as Independent Variables""; ""Gangs in Geographic and Social Space""; ""Future Directions""; ""References""; ""7 Gangs and Social Learning Theory""; ""Introduction"" ; ""The Fundamentals of Social Learning Theory""""Gangs and Other "Learning-Like" Explanations: A Reexamination (and Recasting) of a Classic Youth Gang Study""; ""Framing Gangs and Gang Behavior in a Learning Context: The Evidence""; ""Pushing Social Learning Theory: A Methodological and Theoretical Extension""; ""Speculations on the Future of Social Learning Theory-Driven Gang Studies""; ""Summary""; ""References""; ""8 Social Psychology of Gangs""; ""Social Identity and Communication Processes in and Between Groups""; ""Social Identity and Identification""; ""Communicating Social Identity"" ; ""Social Comparison and Dominance""""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""9 Social Network Analysis and Gangs""; ""Introduction""; ""What is Social Network Analysis?""; ""Gangs as Social Networks""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""10 Gangs, Guns, and Violence""; ""Definitions of Gang Violence""; ""Explanations of Gang Violence""; ""Violence as a Social Process""; ""Violence Among Gang-Involved Individuals""; ""Selection, Facilitation, and Enhancement""; ""Consequences of Gang Violence""; ""Reducing gang and gun violence""; ""Recommendations for Future Research""; ""References"" ; ""11 Gangs and Drugs""
• Sommario/riassunto: This book provides by leading scholars of key topics related to gangs, gang members, and responses to gangs. It includes reviews of the current state of research and practice and addresses where the field has been, where it is today and where it should go in the future as well as theories of delinquency and policy and prevention program implications in the study of gangs, and offers a broad understanding of how other countries deal with gangs and their response to gangs.
• Titolo autorizzato: The handbook of gangs
• ISBN: 1-78684-418-4; 1-118-72682-0; 1-118-72685-5; 1-118-72678-2; 1-118-72675-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910677345003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Wiley handbooks in criminology and criminal justice.