Barrio Gangs : : Street Life and Identity in Southern California / / James Diego Vigil.
Within the Mexican American barrios of Los Angeles, gang activity, including crime and violent acts, has grown and flourished. In the past, community leaders and law enforcement officials have approached the problem, not as something that needs to be understood, but only as something to be gotten ri...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1988 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | CMAS Mexican American Monograph
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Ecological and Socioeconomic Background to Emergence of Street Gangs
- 3. Sociocultural Factors in the Choloization of the Mexican American Youth Population
- 4. Four Life Histories—Wizard, Geronimo, Freddie, and Henry
- 5. The Gang Subculture as a Lifeway: Structure, Process, and Form
- 6. The Notorious Side of the Gang Subculture
- 7. Psychodynamics of Gangs
- 8. Conclusion
- Glossary
- References
- Index