Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 139 g
A Forty-Year Journey
Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 139 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-021524-8
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
In this brief, accessible text, Malcolm Klein presents insights gained from his forty years of experience investigating street gangs. In Part I he reveals some of the dominant trends that have emerged over the course of his research, defining and describing gangs, their locations, who joins them, and the types of illegal behavior in which they engage. In Part II he delves into the conceptual contexts that help us to understand those trends, examining gangs in relation to other small groups, comparing gangs in the U.S. to those in Europe, and discussing approaches to gang control.
About the Series
Keynotes in Criminology and Criminal Justice provides essential knowledge on important contemporary matters of crime, law, and justice to a broad audience of readers. Each volume is written by a leading scholar in that area. Concise, accessible, and affordable, these texts are designed to serve either as primers around which courses can be built or as supplemental books for a variety of courses.
Fachgebiete
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
- Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
- Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
Weitere Infos & Material
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- Introduction
- Part I: Four Levels of Street Gang Information
- 1. A review of Gang and Nongang Jurisdictions
- Relationships of gang presence to city size and location; the overall prevalence of street gangs.
- 2. Street Gangs and Other Groups, youth and adult
- Street gangs defined; the difference between definers and descriptors of street gangs.
- 3. Street Gang Members and Nongang Youth
- Predictors of gang membership, prevalence of gang members in different communities, and the dangers of overidentifying gang members.
- 4. Street Gang Crimes Defined
- "Member-related", "motive-related", and "gang-furtherance" meanings of gang-related criminal acts.
- Part II: Three Contexts for Understanding Street Gangs
- 5. Gang Processes and Structures, the largely ignored fact about street gangs
- Group processes that make gangs qualitatively different from most other groups. Five street gang structures and their implications.
- 6. Street Gangs Here and There
- Gangs in Europe (The Eurogang Program) and the consequences for generic knowledge of street gangs.
- 7. Approaches to Street Gang Control, from early prevention, through intervention, to outright suppression
- Program implementation, success, and failure.
- 8. Concluding Comments: The Next Ten Years
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