Contemporary Gangs
Subtitle: An Organizational Analysis (Criminal Justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC).) (Criminal Justice (Lfb Scholarly Publishing Llc).)
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing; LFB Scholarly Pub.
Published: May 13, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781931202305
Subjects: Social Science; United States; Illinois; Criminology; True Crime / Espionage; Sociology; San Diego; General; San Diego (Calif.); Chicago; California; Case studies; Gangs
First sentence: Although street gangs have been in existence since at least the turn of the century, concern about these criminal enterprises, often related to sensational media coverage of gang-related violence, rose dramatically throughout much of the 1990s.