European street gangs and troublesome youth groups /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
AltaMira Press,
c2005.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. In the grip of the group
- 2. Criminal gangs and their connections : metaphors, definitions, and structures
- 3. An old-fashioned youth gang in Genoa
- 4. Why do young male Russians of German descent tend to join or form violent gangs?
- 5. The role of crime acts in constituting the gang's mentality
- 6. Identification and self-indentification : using a survey to study gangs in the Netherlands
- 7. Youth groups and gangs in Amsterdam : a pretest of the Eurogang expert survey
- 8. Contemporary Russian gangs : history, membership, and crime involvement
- 9. Terrors and young teams : youth gangs and delinquency in Edinburgh
- 10. A cross-national comparison of youth gangs : the United States and the Netherlands
- 11. Gang and youth violence prevention and intervention : contrasting the experience of the Scandinavian welfare state with the United States
- 12. European street gangs and troublesome youth groups : findings from the Eurogang research.