Gang Life in Two Cities An Insider's Journey

Name: Gang Life in Two Cities An Insider's Journey
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ISBN: 9780231158671

ISBN-10: 023115867X

ISBN-13: 9780231158671

Edition: 2012

Authors: Robert J. Duran, Robert J. Durï¿½n

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Refusing to cast gangs in solely criminal terms, Robert J. Durán, a former gang member turned scholar, recasts such groups as an adaptation to the racial oppression of colonization in the American Southwest. Developing a paradigm rooted in ethnographic research and almost two decades of direct experience with gangs, Durán completes the first-ever study to follow so many marginalized groups so intensely for so long, revealing their core characteristics, behavior, and activities within two unlikely American cities.Durán spent five years in Denver, Colorado, and Ogden, Utah, conducting 145 interviews with gang members, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and other related individuals. From…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.792



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Researching Gangs as an Insider



The War on Gangs in the Post-Civil Rights Era



Racialized Oppression and the Emergence of Gangs



Demonizing Gangs Through Religious Righteousness and Suppressed Activism



Negotiating Membership for an Adaptation to Colonization: The Gang



The Only Locotes Standing: The Persistence of Gang Ideals



Barrio Empowerment as a Strategy for Transcending Gangs


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index