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Author Yablonsky, Lewis.

Title Gangsters : fifty years of madness, drugs, and death on the streets of America / Lewis Yablonsky.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 237 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and index.
Contents The current gang problem -- Gangs in the 20th century -- Gang characteristics -- Black and chicano gangs : in and out of prison -- Why gangs kill : the sociopath factor -- Some effective interventions -- The therapeutic community approach to gangs -- Varied theoretical viewpoints -- The violent gang as a near-group -- Joining a positive gang : a plan for treating gangsters in a therapeutic community.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Gangs -- United States.
Gangs.
United States.
Gang prevention -- United States.
Gang prevention.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Yablonsky, Lewis. Gangsters. New York : New York University Press, ©1997 0814796885 (DLC) 96035713 (OCoLC)35620229
ISBN 0585316309 (electronic book)
9780585316307 (electronic book)
9780814789131
0814789137
0814796796 (print)
9780814796795 (print)
9780814796887 (print)
0814796885 (print)