The article discusses why young men join gangs and argues that the primary reason is the desire to emulate their male identities. The author claims that young men seek various signifiers of manhood, both material and symbolic. In other words, youths consider joining a gang as a way of entering a space of so-called “male success.” The article suggests that young men join a gang and use violent methods to defend the interests of their gang. The author discusses everything mentioned above in the setting of social reproduction, analyzing that process for gangs in Colombia. The author of the article explains the actuality of their research by the fact that, although Belize City has one of the world’s highest homicide rates, gangs there are not investigated enough. Using empirical data, the paper’s author explores the transnationalism of the Blood and Crip gangs from the United States to Belize City. The author defines “gang transnationalism,” the primary term of the paper, as “transnational masculinity that makes cultural connections between local settings of urban exclusion.” Aside from that, the article contributes to the global theoretical discussion on gang masculinity. The article emphasizes the impact that activities of criminal gangs and youth violence can have on society. The authors claim that their work on this issue has involved collaborative research, training workshops, dissemination of the current knowledge through the popular media and academic sources, and meetings with several policymakers. Everything described above is a method of analyzing academic ways of investigating social problems associated with gang activities. The article’s authors also try to reflect on the ideological and practical grounds related to the issue. The authors want their research to become a part of the solution to a critical social problem. As claimed by the authors, the purpose of this research is to examine how identity mechanisms contribute to violence facilitating among gang members. The authors of the article use life-history interviews with former gang members and people involved in gang activities. The authors apply the identity theory to investigate the association between violence and commitment to gang identity based on the gathered data. The results of the study show that the association described above is complicated. The authors believe that there is an “identity threshold,” which defines whether violence is required or not to achieve positively reflected appraisals. This chapter of the book written by Ross Deuchar explores specific insights existing in the current literature. The insights under discussion concern gangs, masculinity, and crime. In addition, the author examines the evidence that prevails on religion and spirituality, considering it a potential resource for turning points of nurture and the changes in identity and behavior. The book chapter provides an overview of the international research identifying links between gang culture, violent and offensive behavior, and social constructions of masculinity. The article discusses criminal elements related to gang culture from the viewpoint of cultural criminology, which, according to the authors, accentuates criminal actions as expressive human activities. The study analyzes discourse and conversation and uses that analysis to in