An ethnographic analysis of the purported transnational gang crisis between the United States and El Salvador, based on extensive research in Los Angeles and San Salvador.
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"Space of Detention is a powerful ethnographic account and spatial analysis of the "transnational gang crisis" between the United States and El Salvador. Elana Zilberg seeks to understand how this phenomenon became an issue of central concern for national and regional security, …
Through an ethnographic case study of Chicago's Little Village, Wounded City demonstrates how competition for political power and state resources undermined efforts to reduce gang violence. Robert Vargas argues that the state, through different patterns of governance, can contri…
"Scotlands Gang Members successfully harmonizes gang research and narrative criminology. McLean and Densley defy convention by interweaving in-depth life history accounts with core substantive themes in the literature. They expertly situate people within places and institutions,…
Das Leben in Tonos Quartier ist hoffnungslos, traurig und langweilig, und zu Hause kriegt er auch nur immer Ärger. Nach einer gefährlichen Mutprobe gelingt es Tono, in eine sogenannte "Skin-head"--Bande einzutreten. Jetzt hat er eine echte Familie, die er mit Begeisterung vertei…
Das Leben in Tonos Quartier ist hoffnungslos, traurig und langweilig, und zu Hause kriegt er auch nur immer Ärger. Nach einer gefährlichen Mutprobe gelingt es Tono, in eine sogenannte "Skin-head"--Bande einzutreten. Jetzt hat er eine echte Familie, die er mit Begeisterung vertei…
Rocker gegen den Rechtsstaat: Hells Angels, Bandidos, Outlaws oder Gremium - die Motorradclubs, die sich hinter diesen Namen verbergen, haben in den vergangenen Jahren immer wieder für Schlagzeilen gesorgt. Die Rocker morden, erpressen, dealen, gehen mit Messern und Schusswaffen…
Why did the main challenge to the Ottoman state come not in peasant or elite rebellions, but in endemic banditry? Karen Barkey shows how Turkish strategies of incorporating peasants and rotating elites kept both groups dependent on the state, unable and unwilling to rebel. Bandi…
Why did the main challenge to the Ottoman state come not in peasant or elite rebellions, but in endemic banditry? Karen Barkey shows how Turkish strategies of incorporating peasants and rotating elites kept both groups dependent on the state, unable and unwilling to rebel. Bandi…
Why did the main challenge to the Ottoman state come not in peasant or elite rebellions, but in endemic banditry? Karen Barkey shows how Turkish strategies of incorporating peasants and rotating elites kept both groups dependent on the state, unable and unwilling to rebel. Bandi…
From piracy to counterfeiting to cargo theft, organized retail crime has exploded into a $38 billion industry. Synchronized global teams of thieves are pilfering immense volumes of high-value products, counterfeiting even more--and using the profits to support the world's most v…
"When most people think of prison gangs, they think of chaotic bands of violent, racist thugs. Few people think of gangs as sophisticated organizations (often with elaborate written constitutions) that regulate the prison black market, adjudicate conflicts, and strategically bal…
