Gangs

Gangs in the era of internet and social media

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The ubiquity of the internet and social media has influenced the lives of people across the globe, including young people involved in street gangs and troublesome youth groups. This development raises important questions about the causes, features, and consequences of online gan…

Gangs in the era of internet and social media

0 Type: Book

The ubiquity of the internet and social media has influenced the lives of people across the globe, including young people involved in street gangs and troublesome youth groups. This development raises important questions about the causes, features, and consequences of online gan…

Gangs in the era of internet and social media

by Melde, Chris, Weerman, Frank M.

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The ubiquity of the internet and social media has influenced the lives of people across the globe, including young people involved in street gangs and troublesome youth groups. This development raises important questions about the causes, features, and consequences of online gan…

This dissertation engages notions of the contemporary American ghetto as a distinct socio-spatial order, one marked by extreme isolation. This engagement is through exploration of the ghetto as an alternative socio-spatial order, distinguished by cosmopolitanism and the role som…

This study seeks to understand how individuals who have renounced their affiliations to violent organizations, referred to as "formers," make sense of their transformation through a morphological analysis of their narratives to uncover possible ways this process of renunciation …

Although the government of the United States of America was established to protect the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness among all American citizens, this thesis argues intractable gang violence in inner-city Chicago has persistently denied these rights, in tu…

In recent years urban violence has become understood as a 'reproduced', multi-causal and socially generated phenomenon. Less is understood about why young men reproduce the majority of this violence. This thesis uses original empirical data based on thirty-two life-histories of …

Street Gangs, Migration Ethnicity

by Peterson, Dana, Lien, Inger-Lise, Van Gemert, Frank

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This book is the third publication from the Eurogang Network, a cross-national collaboration of researchers (from both North America and Europe) devoted to comparative and multi-national research on youth gangs. It provides a unique insight into the influence of migration on loc…

Street gangs, migration and ethnicity

by Gemert, Frank van, Peterson, Dana, Lien, Inger-Lise

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This book is the third publication from the Eurogang Network, a cross-national collaboration of researchers (from both North America and Europe) devoted to comparative and multi-national research on youth gangs. It provides a unique insight into the influence of migration on loc…

Street gangs, migration and ethnicity

by Gemert, Frank van, Peterson, Dana, Lien, Inger-Lise

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This book is the third publication from the Eurogang Network, a cross-national collaboration of researchers (from both North America and Europe) devoted to comparative and multi-national research on youth gangs. It provides a unique insight into the influence of migration on loc…

Blood on the razor wire

by Marks, Chad

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Twenty-four-year-old Chad Marks was sentenced to forty years in the Federal Prison System for a non-violent drug crime. He was sent to one of the worst, if not the worst, prison in the United States where violence, beatings, stabbings, and death were just everyday business. This…

Masters of deception: the gang that ruled cyberspace

by Slatalla, Michelle, Quittner, Joshua, De Vicq de Cumptich, Roberto, Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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The members of the Legion of Doom (LOD) and the Masters of Deception (MOD) got caught up in a rivalry that involved the security of databases from phone companies to celebrities' credit histories. Meanwhile federal agents were monitoring the battle and closing in for the kill.

Masters of deception: the gang that ruled cyberspace

by Slatalla, Michelle, Quittner, Joshua

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"From the bedroom terminals of teenagers isolated from their peers by their hyperactive intellects to the nerve center of a nationwide long-distance phone company infiltrated by a hacker's hand, Masters of Deception offers an unprecedented tour of the murkiest reaches of the ele…

Masters of deception: the gang that ruled cyberspace

by Slatalla, Michelle, Quittner, Joshua

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The members of the Legion of Doom (LOD) and the Masters of Deception (MOD) got caught up in a rivalry that involved the security of databases from phone companies to celebrities' credit histories. Meanwhile federal agents were monitoring the battle and closing in for the kill.

Black vanguards and black gangsters: from seeds of discontent to a declaration of war

by Cureton, Steven R.

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Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters: From Seeds of Discontent to a Declaration of War examines the extent to which black gangsterism is a product of civil rights gains, community transition, black flight, social activism, and failed grassroots social movement groups. Unfortunate…

Black vanguards and black gangsters: from seeds of discontent to a declaration of war

by Cureton, Steven R.

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"Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters: From Seeds of Discontent to a Declaration of War examines the extent to which black gangsterism is a product of civil rights gains, community transition, black flight, social activism, and failed grassroots social movement groups. Unfortunat…