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Shared interests, territorial control, and criminal activities
- Gang culture refers to the formation of groups characterised by a common identity, often based on shared interests, territorial control, and criminal activities. Gangs exist in various forms and have a long history across different societies worldwide.
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Over the decades of gang research in America and Europe, sociologists and anthropologists have come to agree on cultural elements in theories of gang formation: American and European youth gangs are derivative of cultural clashes, which engender racism and fundamental antagonistic changes in cultural systems’ economic production and social ...
- Mark S. Fleisher
- 2018
Dec 3, 2019 · Cultural processes construct and reinforce social norms within gangs that can perpetuate violence. Local gang and street culture provide gang youth with the tools to navigate social situations so that they can build status and respect while also deterring victimization.
Jan 23, 2024 · Toward improving the theoretical, analytical, and methodological precision of ongoing gang scholarship, the chapter contends that researchers have historically adopted three primary conceptualizations of gang culture: (1) culture-as-values, (2) culture-as-toolkit, and (3) culture-as-products.
Oct 13, 2020 · Abstract. Street gangs form subtly unique cultures, but they are also immersed in a broader street culture that is pervasive in select urban neighborhoods. The intersection between gang and...
Feb 4, 2020 · This article applies multiple perspectives on social, personal, and collective identity to gangs and gang members. It offers principles to explain how gang identities fuel social performances that mimic, induce, or involve criminal behavior.
In perceiving gangs foremost as an assigned perception of a group within a highly political context, cultural criminology opposes those perspectives that perceive gangs as an objective, apolitical, static group characteristic.
