What encourages gang behavior?
By: Tamara L. Roleff, book editor.
Contributors: Roleff, Tamara L., 1959-
Series: At issue; At issue (San Diego, Calif.)
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Gangs; Gang members -- Psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-88) and index.
Table of contents: title: Youths join gangs for many reasons -- Lonnie Jackson; title: Youths join gangs for protection -- Scott H. Decker and Barrik Van Winkle; title: Youths join gangs for the thrill of violence and power -- Isis Sapp-Grant and Rosemarie Robotham; title: Girls join gangs to escape problems at home -- Jody Miller; title: Asian youths join gangs because they feel culturally alienated -- Patrick Du Phuoc Long with Laura Ricard; title: Drug trafficking encourages gang behavior -- Lewis Yablonsky -- The; title: media encourage gang behavior -- Rick Landre, Mike Miller, and Dee Porter; title: Prison life encourages gang behavior-- Tiffany Danitz.