Gangs in America III [[electronic resource] /] / edited by C. Ronald Huff
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| Titolo: |
Gangs in America III [[electronic resource] /] / edited by C. Ronald Huff
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| Pubblicazione: | Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.10660973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Gangs - United States |
| Juvenile delinquents - United States | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
HuffC. Ronald
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-314) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; PART 1: The Gang: Changing Boundaries, Joining, "Banging,"and Getting Out; 1 - The Changing Boundaries of Youth Gangs; 2 - Joining the Gang; 3 - Initiation of Drug Use, Drug Sales, and Violent Offending Among a Sample of Gang and Nongang Youth; 4 - Leaving the Gang; PART 2: The Arenas: Neighborhoods, Communities, and Schools; 5 - The Systemic Model of Gang Behavior; 6 - Introducing Hoover; 7 - Gangs and the Informal Economy; 8 - Gangs, Violence, and Safe Schools; 9 - Gangs and Community-Oriented Policing |
| 10 - Issues in Developing and Maintaining a Regional Gang Incident Tracking SystemPART 3: The Increasing Diversity of Gangs; 11 - A Cross-Cultural Framework for Understanding Gangs; 12 - The Girls in the Gang; 13 - Doing Field Research on Diverse Gangs; 14 - Chinese Gangs; 15 - Street Gangs; PART 4: Gang Research and Public Policy; 16 - Ganging Up on Gangs; 17 - New Approaches to the Strategic Prevention of Gang and Group-Involved Violence; 18 - Gangs and Public Policy; References; About the Editor; About the Contributors | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This edition includes original essays from a broad array of gang researchers and experienced practitioners who work with gangs. The writing concentrates on American gangs and the agencies that study and deal with them. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Gangs in America III |
| ISBN: | 0-7619-2423-X |
| 1-5063-1997-1 | |
| 1-4522-3220-2 | |
| 1-4522-6421-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910481033103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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