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Title Encyclopedia of gangs / edited by Louis Kontos and David C. Brotherton
Published Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 289 pages) : illustrations
Series Gale virtual reference library
Contents The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN) / David C. Brotherton -- The Asociación Ñeta / David C. Brotherton -- Australian youth gangs / Kevin McDonald -- The Black Hand / David Hohn -- Bloods / Juan Francisco Esteva Martinez -- Brazilian gangs / André Sales Batista, Marcos David Burgos -- Chavos Banda in New York City / Juan Francisco Esteva Martinez -- Chicano gangs / Karin Michonski -- Chinese organized crime and gangs / Sean Grennan -- Criminal career paradigm / Lila Kazemian -- Criminal organizations / Albert DiChiara -- Criminal subcultures and gangs / J. Mitchell Miller, Janaka VanderKooi -- Crips / Juan Francisco Esteva Martinez, Marcos Antonio Ramos -- Differential association theory / Albert DiChiara -- Football hooligans / Chabeli Miralles Sueiro -- French gangs / Akim Oualhaci -- Gang and non-gang grafitti / Jeff Ferrell -- Gang clothing / Jessica Castanon -- Gang females / Dana M. Nurge -- Gang graffiti: East Coast vs. West Coast / Robert D. Weide -- Gang identity as performance / Robert Garot -- Gang photography / Donna DeCesare -- Gang prevention and intervention programs / Crystal Rodriguez -- Gang symbols / Shawn Booth -- Gang workers / Robert Durán -- Gangs and drugs / Stephanie Herman -- Gangs and post-industrialism / Kevin McDonald -- Gangs and the media / David C. Brotherton -- Gangs and the underground economy / Stuart Henry, Dana Nurge -- Gangs as social and economic organizations / S. Wojciech Sokolowski -- Gangs in prison / Jeffrey Ian Ross -- Gangs in U.S. schools / Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, Howard Lune -- Gangster disciples / Marisa Omori, Douglas E. Thompkins -- Gangster wannabes / Billy Long -- German gangs / Sandra M. Bucerius -- Godfathers / David Hohn -- GRASP (Gang Reduction and Aggressive Supervision Parole) / Richard Butler -- Hate groups / Yolanda Martin -- Hell's Angels in Canada / Angelo Kontos -- Japanese organized crime and gangs / Sean Grennan -- Jewish gangs and gangsters / Donna L. Halper -- King Blood / David C. Brotherton -- Kingism / Luis Barrios -- Korean organized crime and gangs / Sean Grennan -- Labeling theory / Robert D. Weide -- Latin gangs in Barcelona / Noemí Canelles, Carles Feixa-- Latin King Bible / Louis Kontos -- The Latin Queens / Milady T. Padilla -- Little brother syndrome / Ric Curtis -- Machismo / Yolanda Martín -- Mexican gangs / Carles Feixa -- Moral panics / Jock Young -- Non-racist skinheads / Albert DiChiara -- Operation Ceasefire / David Kennedy -- Organized crime / Albert DiChiara -- Outlaw bikers / Mitch Librett -- PATHE (Positive Action Through Holistic Education) / Racquel Ellis -- Police repression tactics against U.S. street gangs / David C. Brotherton -- Qualitative analysis and gangs / Annette Bickford -- Racist skinheads in the U.S. / Peter G. Simi -- Rap music / Darby E. Southgate -- Research methods / Annette Bickford -- Restorative justice and gang crime / Billy Long -- Russian gangs / Svetlana Stephenson -- Skinheads / Albert DiChiaria -- Social construction of gangs / William J. Farrell -- Social disorganization / Albert DiChiaria -- South African gangs / Tony Roshan Samara -- Spanish gangs / Carles Feixa, Laura Porzio -- Street organizations / David C. Brotherton -- Subcultural theories of gangs / Louis Kontos -- Subculture of gangs / Russell Kelly -- Suburban gangs / Rebecca D. Petersen -- Terrorism and gangs / Marisa Omori -- Thrasher, Frederic / Greg Dimitriadis -- Transnational gangs / Carles Feixa -- Trenchcoat Mafia / Ralph Larkin -- Vice Lords Inc. / Chano LaBoy -- Vietnamese organized crime and gangs / Sean Grennan -- Vigilante gangs / Annette L. Bickford -- Williams, Stanley Tookie / Tom Hayden -- Yablonsky and The violent gang / Russell Kelly
Summary Examines gangs throughout the United States in over eighty entries covering topics such as history, the wide range of communities where gangs form, and their increasingly complex lifestyle
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Gangs -- United States -- Encyclopedias
Gangs -- Encyclopedias
TRUE CRIME -- Organized Crime.
Gangs
Bande
Gäng -- Förenta staterna.
United States
USA
Genre/Form encyclopedias.
Reference works
Encyclopedias
Reference works.
Encyclopedias.
Ouvrages de référence.
Encyclopédies.
Form Electronic book
Author Kontos, Louis.
Brotherton, David.
ISBN 9780313348914
031334891X