Barrio Gangs Street Life and Identity in Southern California

Name: Barrio Gangs Street Life and Identity in Southern California
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ISBN: 9780292711198

ISBN-10: 0292711190

ISBN-13: 9780292711198

Edition: 1988

Authors: James Diego Vigil

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"This book is a major contribution to understanding Chicano gangs, and the multiple marginality framework will prove helpful in understanding other Chicano subcultures in very different contexts." American Anthropologist Within the Mexican American barrios of Los Angeles, gang activity, including crime and violent acts, has grown and flourished. In the past, community leaders and law enforcement officials have approached the problem, not as something that needs to be understood, but only as something to be gotten rid of. Rejecting that approach, James D. Vigil asserts that only by understanding the complex factors that give birth and persistence to gangs can gang violence be ended. …

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 10/1/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

James Diego Vigil is Professor of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine.



Foreword


Preface



Introduction



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



Conclusion


Glossary


References


Index