Gang Culture as a Structured Social Entity 
Although many people think of
gang culture as just a group of bad kids,
gang culture is actually a highly structured social entity with hierarchies of power ....
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Dress and American Youth
.... They may think they understand the nature of the
gang culture, but in truth much of it is far outside the experience of the average teenager. ....
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Youth Gangs in American Society
The book has a good deal of information about the
gang culture, but the interpretation of the authors places more blame on society than on the offenders and ....
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Novel Dealing with California Gang Members
It's a violent, compelling and sad picture of
gang culture which depicts 12 and 13-year-old boys who are coming of age under the most dire circumstances. ....
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Youth Gang Membership
.... impossible to overcome.
Gang culture boosts members' self-esteem in ways that the mainstream does not. The key to Arfaniarromo's ....
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Jess Mowry's novel Way Past Cool
It's a violent, compelling and sad picture of
gang culture which depicts 12 and 13-year-old boys who are coming of age under the most dire circumstances. ....
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Gangs in the US
.... Some researchers place the blame on a variety of social institutions that have no desire to create a
gang culture but that are here blamed for it just the same ....
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Youth Gangs in Detroit
.... without money. The
gang culture did not invent the importance of money, but simply reflects what society teaches. If Taylor truly ....
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American Culture and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
.... which is a point driven home every week as the "Scooby
Gang" struggle against .... friends are meant to embody a "largely docile and normative teen
culture" (Davis 4 ....
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Theories of Crime
.... Everything that Katz describes about
gang culture shows that the individual involved in
gang activity acquires some sense of self and some psychological boost ....
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Gangs in the United States
.... The
gang members participate in the drive-by to enhance their status within their group and their group's status within the
gang culture. ....
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Gang Membership
.... Not
culture conflict in general, but conflict in the very definitions of what .... surfaces when research based upon interviews with delinquents and
gang members as ....
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Gangs: Why People Join Them and the Typical Gang Member
.... For others, it is just a matter of 'family tradition.' Typical
Gang Members: Age, Race, Gender,
Culture Edgar (2004) points out that gangs are not just a big ....
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Breakdancing & Culture
.... exuberant movements were developed by
gang members who used it instead of violence in competitions or battles, with rival gangs. "Within a
culture of their own ....
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Red Guards, Jiang Qing & the Gang of Four
.... in party politics and became one of the heads of the
Culture Department for .... with radical intellectuals from Shanghai, and together they formed the
Gang of Four ....
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School Violence
.... In Los Angeles, Moore says,
gang culture "stem[s] from the quasi-isolation of the semisecret juvenile group," citing the confrontation of (say) the Chicano ....
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Juvenile Gang Membership Ronald Akers' social lea
.... Latin
culture and its views of women and their roles in family and society (Esbensen & Deschenes, 1998, p. 799). In addition, interviews with
gang members in ....
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Andrew Rolle's Los Angeles: From Pueblo to City of the Future
.... many of the city's major and chronic problems such as lack of water, lack of public transportation, unregulated growth, ethnic tensions and
gang culture. ....
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Effects of Organized Crime on American Culture
.... socialized to it over time as he is exposed to it as a
culture with its .... Those costs are borne by the various members of the
gang essentially as a part of the ....
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The Culture of Poverty
.... are targeted as criminals/ illegal immigrants, Asian Americans as
gang members, Arab Americans as terrorists, etc. (Brustman, 2002). The
culture of poverty ....
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Battered-Person Syndrome
.... dislocation and lack of mainstream opportunities could be relevant to the theories cited herein, and a retrospective study of
gang culture (Arfaniarromo, 2001 ....
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Minority Working Class Youth Subcultures
.... in the prevailing
culture. For example, Jankowski notes that individual acts of violence in gangs, if seen as a threat or potential threat to the
gang as an ....
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The Globalization of Gangs
.... and even to other countries. When this happens,
gang members take their
culture with them. According to Papachristos (2005: 1-18 ....
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Gang Violence
.... anomie occurs when there are goals and values promoted by a
culture or society .... Thus,
gang membership is viewed as an alternative to mainstream norms and values ....
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Gang Violence: Social Conflict Theory
.... Poltrok 1). In the face of such influences, black youth are often drawn to
gang membership and violence as an alternative lifestyle in a
culture they believe ....
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Florida, Cuba & Crime
The main focus of the analysis will be on how
culture influences teen crime, particularly juvenile crime involving
gang membership. ....
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Female Gang Activity in Georgia
.... 2002). The meaning and gendered
culture of getting high:
Gang girls and drug use issues. Contemporary Drug Problems, 29(2), 375-415. ....
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Activism of the Chicano Culture
.... the Chicano population was used as a scapegoat for white fears of
gang activity and .... The Latin
culture had, in fact, been officially criminalized as a race as ....
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US Gun Culture
.... States as a so called "gun
culture." Within this type of
culture, the perception .... the criminal element of drugs or robbery, or within the
gang related violent ....
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Reasons for Gang Membership
.... Campbell, Anne. (1984). The Girls in the
Gang. Oxford: Basil Horowitz, Ruth. (1983). Honor and the American Dream:
Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community. ....
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