TY - BOOK AU - Hughes,Lorine A. AU - Short,James F. TI - Studying youth gangs T2 - Violence prevention and policy series SN - 759109389 U1 - 302.34 20 PY - 2006/// CY - Lanham (Maryland, Estados Unidos) PB - AltaMira Press KW - Identidad colectiva KW - Aspectos sociales KW - Jóvenes KW - Condiciones sociales KW - Pandillas KW - Sociología KW - Violencia N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice; Preface / James F. Short, Jr., and Lorine A. Hughes. -- Why study gangs? An intellectual journey / James F. Short, Jr.. -- Are "gang" studies dangerous? Youth violence, local context, and the problem of reification / Mercer L. Sullivan. -- Studying youth gangs: the importance of context / Lorine A. Hughes. -- The gang facilitation effect and neighborhood risk: do gangs have a stronger influence on delinquency in disadvantaged areas? / Gina Penly Hall, Terence P. Thornberry, and Alan J. Lizotte. -- Neighborhood effects on street gang behavior / Andrew V. Papachristos and David S. Kirk. -- Youth gang social dynamics and social network analysis: applying degree centrality measures to assess the nature of gang boundaries / Mark S. Fleisher. -- Social network analysis and gang research: theory and methods / Andrew V. Papachristos. -- A public health model for studying youth gangs / Bill Sanders and Stephen E. Lankenau. -- The value of comparisons in street gang research / Malcolm W. Klein. -- Hate groups or street gangs? The emergence of racist skinheads / Pete Simi. -- Youth gang research in Australia / Rob White. -- The global impact of gangs / John M. Hagedorn. -- Gang membership and community corrections populations: characteristics and recidivism rates relative to other offenders / David E. Olson and Brendan D. Dooley. -- The comprehensive, community-wide gang program model: success and failure / Irving A. Spergel, Kwai Ming Wa, and Rolando Villarreal Sosa. -- Moving gang research forward / James F. Short, Jr., and Lorine A. Hughes UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005037372.html ER -