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This book is the third publication from the Eurogang Network, a
cross-national collaboration of researchers (from both North
America and Europe) devoted to comparative and multi-national
research on youth gangs. It provides a unique insight into the
influence of migration on local gang formation and development,
paying particular attention to the importance of ethnicity. The
book also explores the challenges that migration and ethnicity pose
for responding effectively to the growth of such gangs,
particularly in areas where public discourse on such issues is
restricted. Chapters in the book are concerned to address both
situations where there have been longstanding problems with street
gangs as well as areas where such issues have just started to
emerge. A variety of different research traditions and approaches
are represented, including ethnographic methods, self-report
surveys and interviews, official records data and victim
interviews. It will be essential reading for anybody interested in
the phenomenon of street and youth gangs.
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Studying Youth Gangs (Hardcover)
James F. Short, Lorine A Hughes; Contributions by Brendan D. Dooley, Mark S Fleisher, John M Hagedorn, …
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In this absorbing new collection, Short and Hughes and their
distinguished coauthors investigate why and how we study youth
gangs. Over the last half-century of research by criminologists,
sociologists, and gang experts, investigations of gang behavior
have become increasingly specialized and isolated from studies of
delinquency and deviance. The authors challenge popular and
inaccurate definitions of gangs vs. non-gang youth groups, and show
how the amazing diversity of gangs_both domestic and
international_demands more rigorous study. This book stimulates
thinking about valid methods of defining and interpreting gang
behavior, in order to better understand delinquent and criminal
behaviors, and their control. It is an ideal text for criminal
justice, sociology, and social work courses, and a resource for law
enforcement, probation and parole practitioners, and public
defenders.
This book is the third publication from the Eurogang Network, a
cross-national collaboration of researchers (from both North
America and Europe) devoted to comparative and multi-national
research on youth gangs. It provides a unique insight into the
influence of migration on local gang formation and development,
paying particular attention to the importance of ethnicity. The
book also explores the challenges that migration and ethnicity pose
for responding effectively to the growth of such gangs,
particularly in areas where public discourse on such issues is
restricted. Chapters in the book are concerned to address both
situations where there have been longstanding problems with street
gangs as well as areas where such issues have just started to
emerge. A variety of different research traditions and approaches
are represented, including ethnographic methods, self-report
surveys and interviews, official records data and victim
interviews. It will be essential reading for anybody interested in
the phenomenon of street and youth gangs.
Paco Domingo is a street cop, a gang cop, a composite figure
derived from criminologist Malcolm Klein's real observations,
actual incidents, and verbatim court testimony in over 40 years of
police and gang research. Klein, well-known criminologist and
police consultant, tells the story of Domingo, who is deeply
engaged in battling his street gang opponents. The author points to
the dangers in police elite units when a 'tough cop' begins to
rationalize the use of police violence and corruption. For all of
those concerned with dealing in practical ways with street gangs,
the greatest impediment has been ignorance about their nature.
Klein highlights the importance of the training of gang cops, often
the first point of contact with gang members in the community. He
points out the discrepancies between some of their views and
assumptions of fact in law enforcement on the one hand, and what
criminological research has discovered on the other. The author
assesses the knowledge and skills of the gang cop, and current gaps
in our knowledge of street gangs. This book will be valuable to law
enforcement personnel, lawyers, criminologists, and community and
governmental agencies concerned with the proliferation of gangs in
America's towns.
Placed in a fictional but typical European city, a research team
responds to reports of street gang violence by adapting the widely
used research procedures developed in the Eurogang Program in a
dozen countries since 1997. The author follows the development of
the research team and its relationships with community leaders, the
press, and several different street gangs in the city. Entre to the
gangs brings research and personal problems for the staff and
reveals important differences between the gangs in crime patterns
and group structures. Comparison to American and other European
gangs builds the case for several forms of gang knowledge, while
specific incidents including violent attacks on staff members bring
to life the unique aspects of Euroburg, a city of tourism and
commercial success. The author humanizes the study of street gangs,
based on his forty-year career in gang research and control.
In the past two decades, many prevention and suppression programs
have been initiated on a national and local level to combat street
gangs-but what do we really know about them? Why do youths join
them? Why do they proliferate? Street Gang Patterns and Policies is
a crucial update and critical examination of our understanding of
gangs and major gang-control programs across the nation. Often
perceived solely as an urban issue, street gangs are also a
suburban and rural dilemma. Klein and Maxson focus on gang
proliferation, migration, and crime patterns, and highlight known
risk factors that lead to youths form and join gangs within
communities. Dispelling the long-standing assumptions that the
public, the media, and law enforcement have about street gangs,
they present a comprehensive overview of how gangs are organized
and structured. The authors assess the major gang programs across
the nation and argue that existing prevention, intervention, and
suppression methods targeting individuals, groups, and communities,
have been largely ineffective. Klein and Maxson close by offering
valuable policy guidelines for practitioners on how to intervene
and control gangs more successfully. Filling an important gap in
the literature on street gangs and social control, this book is a
must-read for criminologists, social workers, policy makers, and
criminal justice practitioners. "This is an important book. Malcolm
Klein and Cheryl Maxson here draw upon their own rich and
pioneering research experience and that of others to provide the
most comprehensive review of what is known and what needs to be
known about gangs and their control in community contexts. I stand
in awe of their accomplishment."-James F. Short, Jr., Past
President of the American Sociological Association "The need to
intervene successfully with street gangs is self-evident;
unfortunately the way to do so is not. Klein and Maxson, based on a
masterful review of the empirical literature on gangs and on gang
intervention efforts, lay out a balanced and comprehensive strategy
for confronting this problem head-on. Neither falsely optimistic
nor unnecessarily gloomy, they provide a road map that, if
followed, will yield substantial progress in our fight against
gangs."-Terence P. Thornberry, Director, Research Program on
Problem Behavior, University of Colorado
Street Gang Patterns and Policies provides a crucial update and
critical examination of knowledge about gangs and major gang
control programs across the nation. Malcolm Klein and Cheryl Maxson
here focus on gang proliferation, migration, and crime patterns,
and highlight known risk factors that lead to youths joining gangs
and to gang formation within communities. Dispelling long-standing
assumptions that the public--and the media and law
enforcement--have about street gangs, they present a comprehensive
overview of how gangs are organized and structured. The authors
assess the major gang programs across the nation, and argue that
existing prevention, intervention and suppression methods,
targeting individuals, groups, and communities, have been largely
ineffective, when evaluated. Klein and Maxson close by offering
policy guidelines for practitioners on how to intervene and control
gangs more successfully. Filling an important gap in the literature
on street gangs and social control, this book will be a must read
for criminologists, social workers, policy makers, and criminal
justice practitioners.
This book reviews what has been known about gangs, and updates that information into the 1990s. It covers reported changes in the structure and crime patterns of gangs, their age, ethnic, and gender characteristics, and their spread into almost all corners of the nation. It also reviews and updates situation in other countries to determine how unique the American gang really is.
This book provides an overview of the dominant philosophical
approaches and practices in handling status offenders--those
children who habitually resist the control of their parents and
schools, who run away from home, who drink and stay out after
curfew. The three basic and competing social philosophies in
responding to these troubled and troublesome youths--discussed at
length in this book--are known as the treatment, deterrence, and
normalization rationales. In examining these philosophies, the
authors consider the quality and quantity of response to and for
status offenders at local community service outlets in seven
different cities. In this way, Maxson and Klein are able to
determine whether such response practices conform with the
ideological thrusts embedded in state legislation.
The results will surprise many legislative and youth service
policy professionals. Agency characteristics, service-delivery
patterns, and youth clients do indeed reflect the treatment,
deterrence, and normalization rationales, but in ways that have
little bearing on the dominant philosophies embodied by state
legislation.
Special chapters are devoted to those minors most likely to slip
through the safety-net of youth service --chronic runaways and
street kids. The authors discuss the implications of their findings
for lawmakers and policy developers.
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