Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives

Table of contents

• Gangs and Society i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Introduction vii
• Part 1 - Theory and Methodology 1
• 1: A Note on Social Theory and the American Street Gang 3
• 2: Toward a Typology of Contemporary Mexican American Youth Gangs 12
• 3: The Negligible Role of Gangs in Drug Distribution in New York City in the 1990s 41
• 4: Marginal Youth, Personal Identity, and the Contemporary Gang: Reconstructing the Social World? 62
• Part 2 - Gangs and Politics 75
• 5: Gangs and the Contemporary Urban Struggle: an Unappreciated Aspect of Gangs 77
• 6: Urban Street Activists: Gang and Community Efforts to Bring Peace and Justice to Los Angeles Neighborhoods 95
• Part 3 - Gangs, Agency, and At-Risk Youth 117
• 7: The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation and the Spirituality of Resistance: Agency, Social Cohesion, and Liberating Rituals in the Making of a Street Organization 119
• 8: Education in the Reform of Street Organizations in New York City 136
• Part 4 - Women and Gangs 159
• 9: Liberating Yet Limiting: the Paradox of Female Gang Membership 161
• 10: Amor De Reina! the Pushes and Pulls of Group Membership Among the Latin Queens 183
• Part 5 - Gangs and Social Control 211
• 11: Gangs and the Law 213
• 12: The Gang Crackdown in the Prisons of Massachusetts: Arbitrary and Harsh Treatment Can Only Make Matters Worse 228
• Part 6 - Gangs and Photography 253
• 13: On the Subject of Gang Photography 255
• 14: From Civil War to Gang War: the Tragedy of Edgar Bolanos 283
• 15: Snapshots of a Movement: the New York Latin Kings and Queens 1996–99 314
• Contributors 337
• Index 341

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