Drugs Gangs And Violence

Author : Stanley Williams
Publisher : Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9781568381350
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gangs and Drugs written by Stanley Williams and published by Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the founders of the Crips, a Los Angeles gang, tells the reader about the dangers of gang life, particularly of getting involved with drug use and drug dealing.

Author : Margot Webb
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823928682
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drugs and Gangs written by Margot Webb and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 1997-12-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of drugs and gangs, how they relate to each other, and how young people can protect themselves from dangerous involvement.

Author : James C. Howell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Youth Gangs, Drugs, and Violence Connection written by James C. Howell and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan D. Rosen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319944517
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drugs, Gangs, and Violence written by Jonathan D. Rosen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the nature of transnational organized crime and gangs, and how these diverse organizations contribute to violence, especially in so-called fragile states across Central and Latin America. While the nature of organized crime and violence differs depending on the context, the authors explain how and why states plagued by weak institutions tend to foster criminal organizations and violence, and why counter-crime initiatives often result in higher levels of violence. By examining the consequences of tough on crime policies (e.g., mano dura) in places like Mexico, El Salvador, and Colombia, the volume offers a new perspective on the link between state fragility, crime, and violence.

Author : McLean, Robert
Publisher : Bristol University Press
ISBN 13 : 1529203023
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gangs, Drugs and (Dis)Organised Crime written by McLean, Robert and published by Bristol University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon unique empirical data based on interviews with high profile ex-offenders and experts, this book sheds new light on drug markets and gangs in the UK. The study shows how traditional methods of tackling gang violence fail to address the intertwined nature of those criminal activities which can overlap with other organised crime spheres. McLean sparks new debate on the subject, offering solutions and alternatives.

Author : Deuchar, Ross
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529210569
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gangs, Drugs and Youth Adversity written by Deuchar, Ross and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting the young men interviewed in Deuchar's original fieldwork over a decade later, this book ascertains how early exposure to gang culture and weapon carrying acts as a path to wider types of offending. Through empirical insights and policy analysis, it considers the evolving nature of gangs, knife crime and street violence in Glasgow.

Author : James C. Howell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Youth Gang Drug Trafficking written by James C. Howell and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jorja Leap
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780807044568
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jumped in written by Jorja Leap and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 2012 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oral histories, interviews, and eyewitness accounts explore the gang community in Los Angeles to describe how gang membership grows, why violence levels are so high, and how gang activity can best be handled.

Author : Lewis Yablonsky
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814797288
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gangsters written by Lewis Yablonsky and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why young people participate in violent gang behavior The effects of gang violence are witnessed every day on the streets, in the news, and on the movie screen. In all these forums, gangs of young adults are associated with drugs and violence. Yet what is it that prompts young people to participate in violent behavior? And what can be done to extract adolescents from the gangster world of crime, death, and incarceration once they have become involved? In Gangsters: 50 Years of Madness, Drugs, and Death on the Streets of America, Lewis Yablonsky provides answers to the most baffling and crucial questions regarding gangs. Using information gathered from over forty years of experience working with gang members and based on hundreds of personal interviews, many conducted in prisons and in gang neighborhoods, Yablonsky explores the pathology of the gangsters' apparent addiction to incarceration and death. Gangsters is divided into four parts, including a brief history of gangs, the characteristics of gangs, successful approaches for treating gangsters in prison and the community, and concluding with a review and analysis of notable behavioral and social scientific theories of gangs. While condemning their violent behavior in no uncertain terms, Yablonsky offers hope through his belief that, given a chance in an effective treatment program, youths trapped in violent behavior can change their lives in positive ways and, in turn, facilitate positive change in their communities and society at large.

Author : Jorja Leap
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807044571
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jumped In written by Jorja Leap and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jumped In tells the story of the gangs of Los Angeles in the words of the gang members themselves as well as the people who interact with them on a daily basis--trying to arrest them, control them, and help them. There are priests and police officers, murderers and drug dealers, victims and grieving mothers, and other assorted characters, often partnering in unlikely ways. Jorja Leap's work draws upon intimate material, from interviews to eyewitness accounts, telling the deeply personal stories of current and former gang members who span three generations, as well as the dilemmas Leap herself faces as she struggles to adjust to marriage and motherhood--with a husband in the LAPD and a daughter in adolescence. Jumped In is a chronicle of the unexpected lessons gang members taught her when she was busily studying them. Ultimately, it is a book about attachments and commitments, loyalties and betrayals, drugs and guns, sex and devotion. When Leap began studying Los Angeles gang violence in 2002, she set out not so much to provide a solution but to find out what was being done and who was doing it. The stakes couldn't have been higher: a child or teenager is killed by gunfire almost every three hours--nearly eight times a day--and homicide is the primary cause of death of African American males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four. During her years of research, this petite white woman from UCLA gained the trust of gang interventionists and access to their inner world. She sat in the living rooms, stood at the crime scenes, and drove through the housing projects. Through the oral histories, personal interviews, and eyewitness accounts of current and former gang members, readers come to understand gangs and the forces that pull people into them. First we get the lay of the land: the genealogy and geography of gangs and sub-gangs, territories within territories. But the centerpiece of the book is really the stories of those people who live "la vida loca," as well as the experiences of those trying to make things better. These stories are told in Leap's candid first-person voice, as she introduces us to gangland residents such as Tray, a young father trying to go straight who is nonetheless felled by a bullet, and Joanna, a third-generation gang member, who speaks of forbidding her mother to sell drugs around her baby granddaughter. We also ride along with Leap and Big Mike, a former "original gangster" who now does street peace ministry. We see the successful "Jobs not Jails" program at Homeboy Industries and learn that former gangsters make good paramedics and firefighters, accustomed to dangerous situations as they are. With an anthropologist's eye and a compassionate heart, Leap offers not a prescription for solving the gang problem, but a gritty yet hopeful portrait of violence and redemption.