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Sep 23, 2024 · History. Gang behaviour may be more universal and ancient than is commonly thought. Semiformalized groups of young adults have existed throughout recorded history, and gangs in some ancient societies engaged in very much the same kind of activities as those associated with gangs today.
Apr 2, 2019 · More than 100 years of research have noted the existence of gangs in countries as disparate as the United States, Kenya, South Africa, Brazil, El Salvador, Nicaragua, China, India, France...
- Dennis Rodgers
This introduction aims to understanding and exploring gang culture in the United Kingdom and provide you with an overview of what gang culture entails, including its history, formation, structure, and activities, while highlighting its evolution in the UK context.
In the late 19 th century, as today, gangs were clustered in districts characterised by high levels of poverty, unemployment and ill health. Contrary to recent media and political debate, gangs are not a by-product of the growth of black communities in British cities; nor can they be attributed to the influence of 'gangsta rap'
Jan 25, 2020 · The authors examine trends in youth violence and offer a brief history of UK gang research before previewing the contribution of the seven empirical articles dealing with police gang databases, knife crime, county lines drug dealing, contextual safeguarding, offender mental health, gang disengagement and criminal desistance.
- James Densley, Ross Deuchar, Simon Harding
- 2020
gangster, member of a criminal organization that systematically makes money from such activities as gambling, prostitution, narcotic trafficking, and industrial extortion. Although there exist throughout the world professional criminals that work with associates on a particular job or series of jobs, the gangster is a member of a permanent ...
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A close look at the processes of gang formation in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City illustrates that rapid changes in core cultural systems had a chilling effect on ethnic groups’ core cultural practices, such as adolescents’ rites of passage to adulthood.
