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Global gangs : street violence across the world /

Global Gangs features essays that investigate gangs spanning across nations, from Brazil to Indonesia, China to Kenya, and from El Salvador to Russia. Volume editors Jennifer M. Hazen and Dennis Rodgers bring together contributors who examine gangs from a comparative perspective, discussing such top...

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Other Authors: Hazen, Jennifer M., 1973- (Editor), Rodgers, Dennis, (Editor), Rodgers, Dennis.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Gangs.
Violence.
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505 0 |a Gangs in a global comparative perspective / Dennis Rodgers and Jennifer M. Hazen -- pt. I. Gang formation and transformation. Intimate connections: gangs and the political economy of urbanization in South Africa / Steffen Jensen -- Cholo!: the migratory origins of Chicano gangs in Los Angeles / James Diego Vigil -- Capitalizing on change: gangs, ideology, and the transition to a liberal economy in the Russian Federation / Alexander L. Salagaev and Rustem R. Safin -- Of marginality and "little emperors": the changing reality of Chinese youth gangs / Lening Zhang -- From black jackets to Zulus: social imagination, myth, and reality concerning French gangs / Marwan Mohammed -- Maras and the politics of violence in El Salvador / José Miguel Cruz -- pt. II. Problematizing gangs. Youth gangs and otherwise in Indonesia / Loren Ryter -- "Playing the game": gang-militia logics in war-torn Sierra Leone / Mats Utas -- "For your safety": child vigilante squads and neo-gangsterism in urban India / Atreyee Sen -- "We are the true blood of the Mau Mau": the Mungiki movement in Kenya / Jacob Rasmussen -- Gang politics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Enrique Desmond Arias -- "Hecho en México: gangs, identities, and the politics of public security / Gareth A. Jones -- The inevitable gang / Sudhir Venkatesh. 
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