This study, based on quantitative and qualitative data gathered
over a twelve-year period, takes its title from the two predominant
styles of gang violence: "drive-bys," which have replaced "rumbles"
as the primary form of gang violence; and "gang-bangs"--a generic
term for other gang violence that includes assaults, knifings, and
beatings.
The author attempts to understand the situations in which a
young man would drive up to another human being and, without
further ado, blow his head off. By examining hundreds of such
situations, and employing both structural and phenomenological
analysis, Sanders explores the various configurations of gang
violence.
Gangbangs and Drive-bys also examines the routines of gang
members and their view of life, the different styles of gangs, and
changes undergone by gangs from the early 1980s to the end of the
same decade. Over that period, the emphasis shifted from parties
and paybacks to big money from the sale of rock cocaine, and from
unstructured to organized crime. Along with that shift came an
increase in the violence.
Finally, Sanders traces the beginning and evolution of a
metropolitan police gang unit over the same decade in order to
present an inside view of how the police attempt to deal with and
understand gangs.
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