| Description |
x, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
SUNY series in urban public policy
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SUNY series on urban public policy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-352) and index. |
| Contents |
What we know and do not know about gangs. Origins and problems of gang research in the United States / Daniel J. Monti -- Gangs, drugs, and violence / Joan Moore -- The behavior and organization of gangs in different settings. Anatomy of a wilding gang / Scott Cummings -- "Down with the program" : racial attitudes and group violence among youth in Bensonhurst and Gravesend / Howard Pinderhughes -- The established gang / Diego Vigil -- Hispanic street gangs in Chicago's public schools / Ray Hutchison and Charles Kyle -- Blazon nouveau : gang graffiti in the barrios of Los Angeles and Chicago / Ray Hutchison -- The working gang / Felix Padilla -- Gang organization and migration / Jerome H. Skolnick, Ricky Bluthenthal, Theodore Correl -- Gangs in more- and less-settled communities / Daniel J. Monti -- What can be done about gangs. Moral panic and the response to gangs in California / Patrick Jackson with Cary Rudman -- Gangs and civil rights / Robert A. Destro -- Public policy and gangs : social science and the urban underclass / Scott Cummings, Daniel J. Monti. |
| Subject |
Gangs -- United States.
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Gangs. |
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United States. |
| Added Author |
Cummings, Scott, 1944-
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Monti, Daniel J., Jr., 1949-
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| ISBN |
079141325X |
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0791413268 paperback |
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