Youth Street Gangs
Subtitle: Breaking the Gangs Cycle in Urban America
Publisher: International Scholars Publishers
Published: February 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9781572920729
Subjects: Social Science; True Crime / Espionage; Politics/International Relations; General; Public Policy - General; Adolescents; Children; Crime & criminology; Cultural studies; Political Science / Public Policy; USA; Urban communities; Criminology; Gang members; Gangs; Psychology; United States; Violent crimes
Description: Vernon Harlan grew up around urban gangs and as a researcher now speaks to the methodological and practical means of curbing their spread and breaking the criminogenic cycle that engulfs their members. As a member of the African American community, he is in the forefront of scholarly and policy groups dealing with this social phenomena.

The legal and social implications of a rise in deviant criminal behavior among the young particularly urban minority youth is immense. Harlan discusses the legal and political cost of a gulag "solution" as well as the failings and inadequacies of a social reform and welfare approach to criminogenic America. He discusses theory, praxis and prescriptive social theory aimed at breaking up the cycle of violence and dependency and offer concrete solutions.