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Gang Leader For A Day : A Rogue Sociologist Takes To The Streets

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A World Of Gangs : Armed Young Men And Gangsta Culture

  • A World Of Gangs : Armed Young Men And Gangsta Culture

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    John M. Hagedorn ; foreword by Mike Davis

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    Book, University of Minnesota Press, 2008

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    Proposing ways in which gangs might be encouraged to overcome their violent tendencies, Hagedorn appeals to community leaders to use the urgency, outrage, and resistance common to both gang life and hip-hop in order to bring gangs into broader movements for social justice. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HV6437 .H34 2008  NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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Street Justice : Retaliation In The Criminal Underworld

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The Long Fall

  • The Long Fall

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    Walter Mosley

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    Book, Riverhead Books, 2009

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    A brand-new mystery series from one of the country?s best-known, best-loved writers: a new character, a new city, a new era. New York City in the twenty-first century is a city full of secrets?and still a place that reacts when you know where to poke and which string to pull. And we learn that with this protagonist, this city, this time, Mosley has tapped a rich new vein that?s inspiring his best work since the classic Devil in a Blue Dress. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3563.O88456 L66 2009  AVAILABLE

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Gangs : A Reference Handbook

  • Gangs : A Reference Handbook

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    Karen L. Kinnear

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    Book, 2nd ed, ABC-CLIO, 2009

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    This book offers a thoroughly updated look at the world of gangs, charting their growth and development in the United States and worldwide, as well as the efforts to curb their expanding criminal enterprises. “Gangs: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition” offers an eye-opening look at modern gangs - their history, their ability to attract members from a widening social pool, as well as efforts by community and political leaders to stop gang-related crime and weaken the grip that gangs have on our culture. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     REFERENCE (MAIN)  HV6439.U7 K55 2009  AVAILABLE

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Hell’s Gate

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Mexican American Girls And Gang Violence : Beyond Risk

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How Can Gang Violence Be Prevented?

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Policing Gangs In America

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European Street Gangs And Troublesome Youth Groups

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Cidade De Deus City Of God

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Children Of The Streets

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Vampires, Dragons, And Egyptian Kings : Youth Gangs In Postwar New York

  • Vampires, Dragons, And Egyptian Kings : Youth Gangs In Postwar New York

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    Eric C. Schneider

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    Book, Princeton University Press, 1999

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    But he argues that young men ultimately joined gangs less because of ethnicity than because membership and gang violence offered rare opportunities for adolescents alienated from school, work, or the family to win prestige, power, adulation from girls, and a masculine identity. He outlines the unwritten rules of gang behavior, the paths members followed to adulthood, and the effects of gang intervention programs, while also providing detailed analyses of such notorious gang-related crimes as the murders committed by the “Capeman,” Salvador Agron. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HV6439.U7 N467 1999  AVAILABLE

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American Youth Gangs At The Millennium

  • American Youth Gangs At The Millennium

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    Finn-Aage Esbensen, Stephen G. Tibbetts, Larry Gaines

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    Book, Waveland Pr, 2004

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    During the last fifteen years of the twentieth century, there was a virtual explosion of attention to youth gangs and youth violence that prompted the proliferation of numerous myths and misperceptions about American youth gangs. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HV6439.U5 E73 2004  AVAILABLE

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Gangs : Opposing Viewpoints

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