The Oxford handbook of gangs and society / edited by David C. Pyrooz, James A. Densley, and John Leverso.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024].
  • ©2024
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 903 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour map

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Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]
Summary note
"The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society is the premier reference book on gangs for practitioners, policymakers, students, and scholars. This carefully curated volume contains 43 chapters written by the leading experts in the field, who advance a central theme of “looking back, moving forward” by providing state-of-the-art reviews of the literature they created, shaped, and (re)defined. This international, interdisciplinary collective of authors provides readers with a rare tour of the field in its entirety, expertly navigating thorny debates and the at-times contentious history of gang research, while simultaneously synthesizing flourishing areas of study that advance the field into the twenty-first century. The volume is divided into six cohesive sections that reflect the diverse field of gang studies and capture the large-scale cultural, economic, political, and social changes occurring within the world of gangs in the last century while also anticipating immense changes on the horizon. From definitions to history to theory to epistemology to technology to policy and practice, this unprecedented volume captures the most timely and important topics in the field. When readers finish this book, they will be more confident in what we know and do not know about gangs in our society."--Provided by publisher.
Notes
Also issued in print: 2024.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Target audience
Specialized.
Source of description
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 4, 2023).
Contents
  • 1. Introduction to the OUP Handbook of Gangs and Society / David C. Pyrooz,James A. Densley,John Leverso
  • Section 1: Revisiting Definitions in the Twenty-​First Century
  • 2. The Eurogang Definition: Context, Development, Scrutiny, and Debate (Including a Conversation with Malcolm Klein) / Frank M. Weerman and Scott H. Decker
  • 3. What Gangs Aren't: Contrasting Gangs with Other Collectives / Martin Bouchard, Karine Descormiers, Alysha Girn
  • 4. A Relational Approach to Street Gangs / Andrew V. Papachristos, John Leverso, David Hureau
  • 5. Gangs in Practice: Violence Prevention, Law Enforcement, and the Received Idea of the "Gang" / David M. Kennedy
  • 6. The Social Construction of the American Street Gang / Patrick Lopez-Aguado
  • 7. Gang Identity across the Life Course / Sou Lee and Bryan F. Bubolz
  • 8. Place Matters: Geographers and Gang Members / Stefano Bloch
  • Section 2: Approaches to the Empirical Study of Gangs
  • 9. The History and Evolution of Gang Scholarship: A Topic Modeling and Change Point Detection Approach / Jason Gravel
  • 10. Funding Gang Research to Advance Policy and Practice / Phelan A. Wyrick, Barbara Tatem Kelley, Mary Poulin Carlton
  • 11. The National Youth Gang Survey: Past, Present, and Future / Meagan Cahill, James C. Howell, Arlen Egley, Jr.
  • 12. Historical Gang Research Methods: An Overview / Mitchel P. Roth
  • 13. Critical Approaches to Gangs / Tilman Schwarze and Alistair Fraser
  • 14. Women in Gang Research: An Overview / Marta-Marika Urbanik and Sandra M. Bucerius
  • 15. Indigenous Gangs and Gang Research / Adrienne Freng and Hannah St. Clair
  • 16. Studying Gangs in Central and South America: Reflections on Gender and Researcher Positionality / María José Méndez and Ellen Van Damme
  • 17. Gang Research in the Caribbean / Edward R. Maguire
  • Section 3: Core and Emerging Issues
  • 18. What Is Gang Culture? Three Conceptualizations of an Elusive Concept / Caylin Louis Moore and Forrest Stuart
  • 19. Masculinities and Respect in the Group Context of Gangs / Lorine A. Hughes and Lisa M. Broidy
  • 20. Birds of a Feather? Individual Differences and Gang Membership / Jennifer J. Tostlebe and Jose Antonio Sanchez
  • 21. Rational Choice, Gang Membership, and Crime: Moving Actors and Choice to Center Stage / Kyle J. Thomas
  • 22. Psychopathology as a Cause or Consequence of Youth Gang Involvement / Patricia K. Kerig, Lucybel Mendez, Ava R. Alexander, Susan Chen
  • 23. The Emerging Frontier: Gangs in Developing Countries / Herbert C. Covey
  • 24. Gang Ecological Diversity in the Hollenbeck Area of Los Angeles, 1978-​2012 / P. Jeffrey Brantingham and Matthew Valasik
  • Section 4: Gangs in Institutional Context
  • 25. Storming the Capital: The Place of Street Capital and Social Capital within Gangs / Simon Harding and Ross Deuchar
  • 26. On Gangs and Family: Primary, Secondary, and Surrogate Family / Gabriel T. Cesar, D’Andre Walker, Tiffany Fernandez
  • 27. Linking Education and Criminology Research to Understand the Schooling Experiences of Gang Youth and Adults / Adrian H. Huerta
  • 28. Religion and Gangs: An Introduction to the Isolated and Integrated Affiliation Models / Timothy R. Lauger and Haleigh Kubiniec
  • 29. Re-​examining the Literature on Social Media and Gangs: Critical Race Theory as a Path for New Opportunities / Caitlin Elsaesser and Desmond Patton
  • 30. Comparative Approaches to the Study of Prison Gangs and Prison Order / David Skarbek and Kaitlyn Woltz
  • 31. Transnational Gangs? Understanding Migration and Gangs / José Miguel Cruz and Jonathan D. Rosen
  • Section 5: Legacies of Second-​Generation Researchers
  • 32. The Legacy of Scott H. Decker / David C. Pyrooz and Richard K. Moule
  • 33. The Legacy of Finn-​Aage Esbensen / Dena C. Carson, Adrienne Freng, Chris Melde, Dana Peterson
  • 34. The Legacy of John M. Hagedorn / Roberto R. Aspholm
  • 35. The Legacy of Cheryl L. Maxson / Shannon E. Reid
  • 36. The Legacy of Joan W. Moore / James Diego Vigil
  • 37. The Legacy of James Diego Vigil / Mike Tapia and E. Mark Moreno
  • Section 6: Responding to Gangs
  • 38. Clinical Intervention for Gang-​Involved Youth: Toward an Empirically Validated Model / Paul Boxer, Joanna Kubik, Stephanie Marcello
  • 39. No Public Benefit: The Placentia Gang Injunction Opposition Campaign / Sean Garcia-Leys and Jesse Engel
  • 40. "Somebody's Watching Me": Surveying Police Surveillance of Gangs / Matthew Valasik and P. Jeffrey Brantingham
  • 41. Policing Gangs: Five Reasons Why Traditional Strategies Fail / Madeleine Novich
  • 42. Defund the Police? Considerations for Reducing Gang Violence / Anthony A. Braga, John M. MacDonald, George Tita
  • 43. Making Sense of the Models: Continuities and Differences across Prominent Gang/​Group Gun Violence Intervention Models / Jesse Jannetta, Paige S. Thompson, Lily Robin.
Other title(s)
  • Handbook of gangs and society
  • Gangs and society
ISBN
  • 9780197618189 ((online))
  • 0197618189 ((online))
  • 9780197618172 ((epub))
  • 0197618170 ((epub))
  • 9780197618165 ((eText))
  • 0197618162 ((eText))
LCCN
2023032621
OCLC
1401630108
Doi
  • 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197618158.001.0001
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