Barrio gangs : street life and identity in Southern California /

Publisher description: James D. Vigil asserts that only by understanding the complex factors that give birth and persistence to gangs can gang violence be ended. Drawing on many years of experience in the barrios as a youth worker, high school teacher, and researcher, Vigil identifies the elements f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vigil, James Diego, 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1988.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Mexican American monographs ; no. 12.
Temas:
Gangs > California > Los Angeles.
Mexican American youth > California > Los Angeles > Ethnic identity.
Mexican American criminals > California > Los Angeles.
Gangs > Californie > Los Angeles.
Jeunesse américaine d'origine mexicaine > Identité ethnique > Californie > Los Angeles.
Criminels américains d'origine mexicaine > Californie > Los Angeles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
Gangs.
Mexican American criminals.
Mexican American youth > Ethnic identity.
Jugendbande
Soziale Identität
Bandes de jeunes > États-Unis > Los Angeles (Calif.)
Américains d'origine mexicaine > États-Unis > Los Angeles (Calif.) > Identité collective.
California > Los Angeles.
Kalifornien > Süd
Chicanos.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ecological and socioeconomic background to emergence of street gangs
  • Sociocultural factors in the choloization of the Mexican American youth population
  • Four life histories--Wizard, Geronimo, Freddie, and Henry
  • The gang subculture as a lifeway : structure, process, and form
  • The notorious side of the gang subculture
  • Psychodynamics of gangs.

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