Gang delinquency and delinquent subcultures.
By: Edited by James F. Short, Jr.
Series: Readers in social problems
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Gangs.; Juvenile delinquency.
Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 297-322).
Table of contents: title: The cherubs are rumbling, by W. Bernstein.; title: Aggression in a boys' street-corner group, by W. B. Miller, H. Geertz, and H. S. G. Cutter.; title: Juvenile delinquency: a group tradition, by C. Shaw.; title: Leadership and the power situation, by H. A. Bloch and A. Niederhoffer.; title: Drug addiction among young persons in Chicago, by S. Kobrin and H. Finestone.; title: Lower class culture as a generating milieu of gang delinquency, by W. B. Miller.; title: Illegitimate means, anomie, and deviant behavior, by R. A. Cloward.; title: Criteria of status among street groups, by S. Kobrin, J. Puntil, and E. Peluso.; title: Significant adults, caretakers, and structures of opportunity; an exploratory study, by R. J. Rivera and J. J. Short, Jr.; title: Why gangs fight, by J. J. Short, Jr. and F. L. Strodtbeck.; title: Groups, gangs, and cohesiveness, by M. W. Klein and L. Y. Crawford.; title: Aleatory risks versus short-run hedonism in explanation of gang action, by F. L. Strodtbeck and J. F. Short, Jr.