Confronting Gangs: Crime and Community

The most comprehensive and current textbook on gang research, gang policy, and gang responses, Confronting Gangs: Crime and Community, Third Edition, offers a full and unbiased assessment of the characteristics of gang members and gang behavior.


DISTINCTIVE FEATURES

Strong focus on the community contexts that contribute to gang activity

Quotes from real-life gang members provide students with a realistic portrait of gang life

• How Gangs Work: An Ethnography of Youth Violence (St Antony's Series)
• Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
• The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice (Wadsworth Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice)
• Criminological Theory: Past to Present: Essential Readings
• Violence: The Enduring Problem
• How Gangs Work: An Ethnography of Youth Violence (St Antony's Series)
• Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio
• The Modern Gang Reader
• Corrections in the Community
• Sense and Nonsense About Crime, Drugs, and Communities