The Projects : : Gang and Non-Gang Families in East Los Angeles / / James Diego Vigil.
The Pico Gardens housing development in East Los Angeles has a high percentage of resident families with a history of persistent poverty, gang involvement, and crime. In some families, members of three generations have belonged to gangs. Many other Pico Gardens families, however, have managed to avo...
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Vigil, James Diego, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Projects : Gang and Non-Gang Families in East Los Angeles / James Diego Vigil. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2007 1 online resource (256 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ONE. Introduction -- TWO. Rationale and Methods -- THREE. A History of the Cuatro Flats Barrio Gang -- FOUR. T he Gang Subculture: Change and Continuity -- FIVE. The Pico Gardens Clique -- SIX. A Gang Life -- SEVEN. Cholas in the World of Gangs -- EIGHT. Why Children Either Avoid or Affiliate with Gangs -- NINE. Families Not Involved with Gangs -- TEN. A Closer Look at Gang-Affiliated Families -- ELEVEN. Gang Prevention and Intervention Strategies over Time -- TWELVE. Conclusion and Recommendations -- REFERENCES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The Pico Gardens housing development in East Los Angeles has a high percentage of resident families with a history of persistent poverty, gang involvement, and crime. In some families, members of three generations have belonged to gangs. Many other Pico Gardens families, however, have managed to avoid the cycle of gang involvement. In this work, Vigil adds to the tradition of poverty research and elaborates on the association of family dynamics and gang membership. The main objective of his research was to discover what factors make some families more vulnerable to gang membership, and why gang resistance was evidenced in similarly situated non-gang-involved families. Providing rich, in-depth interviews and observations, Vigil examines the wide variations in income and social capital that exist among the ostensibly poor, mostly Mexican American residents. Vigil documents how families connect and interact with social agencies in greater East Los Angeles to help chart the routines and rhythms of the lives of public housing residents. He presents family life histories to augment and provide texture to the quantitative information. By studying life in Pico Gardens, Vigil feels we can better understand how human agency interacts with structural factors to produce the reality that families living in all public housing developments must contend with daily. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Gang members Family relationships California Los Angeles. Gangs California Los Angeles. Poor families California Los Angeles. Public housing California Los Angeles. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110745344 https://doi.org/10.7560/717305 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292795099 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292795099/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ONE. Introduction -- TWO. Rationale and Methods -- THREE. A History of the Cuatro Flats Barrio Gang -- FOUR. T he Gang Subculture: Change and Continuity -- FIVE. The Pico Gardens Clique -- SIX. A Gang Life -- SEVEN. Cholas in the World of Gangs -- EIGHT. Why Children Either Avoid or Affiliate with Gangs -- NINE. Families Not Involved with Gangs -- TEN. A Closer Look at Gang-Affiliated Families -- ELEVEN. Gang Prevention and Intervention Strategies over Time -- TWELVE. Conclusion and Recommendations -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ONE. Introduction -- TWO. Rationale and Methods -- THREE. A History of the Cuatro Flats Barrio Gang -- FOUR. T he Gang Subculture: Change and Continuity -- FIVE. The Pico Gardens Clique -- SIX. A Gang Life -- SEVEN. Cholas in the World of Gangs -- EIGHT. Why Children Either Avoid or Affiliate with Gangs -- NINE. Families Not Involved with Gangs -- TEN. A Closer Look at Gang-Affiliated Families -- ELEVEN. Gang Prevention and Intervention Strategies over Time -- TWELVE. Conclusion and Recommendations -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
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