Gangs: An Introduction

by Bill Sanders

Book Overview

Gangs: An Introduction provides a wide-ranging overview ideal for courses on gangs. Opening with a discussion of early research and perspectives from the late 1920s until the early 1970s, the book then moves on to cover sociological and legal definitions of gangs; daily life and risk and protective factors; race and immigration; female gang members; drug use and selling; violence and victimization; the cultural criminology of gangs; theories on gangs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199948593
• ISBN13: 9780199948598
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.1"