An examination of urban gangs, this book provides a new understanding of these underworlds of violence, defiance and criminal activities. Eating, sleeping, and sometimes fighting with gangs in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles, the author takes the reader inside a secretive world, giving gang members' own words as well as those of police, public officials, and community members who live among gangs.
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"The value of this extraordinary book . . . is that it offers bold and fresh thinking on a subject that desperately needs it. . . . It helps demystify gangs, presenting them as human organizations with human members, not as evil or pitiful creatures to be either despised or patronized." -- Christian Science Monitor
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"Vivid, lively, and yet theoretically informed, a triumph of patient and sustained fieldwork. . . . Jankowski presents the gang and its members not as pathological departures from social norms, but as shrewd and resourceful operators."--Michael Lipsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Islands in the Street fills a wide gap in the literature on gangs. Jankowski's innovative model of gang participation and organization is important and elegant, guaranteeing that this will be the book on gangs for the next ten years, if not longer."--Ruth Horowitz, University of Delaware
"Islands in the Street fills a wide gap in the literature on gangs. Jankowski's innovative model of gang participation and organization is important and elegant, guaranteeing that this will be the book on gangs for the next ten years, if not longer."--Ruth Horowitz, University of Delaware
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The behavior and persistence of gangs in American society remains a perplexing problem. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Los Angeles, Puerto Rican, United States, Black Widows, Michael Farmer, Cool Cat, Crisis Intervention Units, Social Darwinist, Box Car, Fort Apache, Savage Profits, Snow Tigers, Mean Stuff, The Warriors New!
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The behavior and persistence of gangs in American society remains a perplexing problem. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Los Angeles, Puerto Rican, United States, Black Widows, Michael Farmer, Cool Cat, Crisis Intervention Units, Social Darwinist, Box Car, Fort Apache, Savage Profits, Snow Tigers, Mean Stuff, The Warriors New!
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- Group Process and Gang Delinquency by J. F. Short on 6 pages
- Lower Class Culture As a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency (Irvington Reprint Series in Sociology) by Walter B. Miller on 5 pages
- Union Democracy: The Inside Politics of the International Typographical Union by Seymour Martin Lipset on page 88, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Social Problems by Joan Moore in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Gangs and Society by Louis Kontos on 4 pages
- Our Enemies in Blue by Kristian Williams in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin, 1929-1933 by Pamela E. Swett on page 214, page 236, and Back Matter
- A Vision of American Law: Judging Law, Literature, and the Stories We Tell by Barry R. Schaller in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Collision of Wills: How Ambiguity about Social Rank Breeds Conflict by Roger V. Gould on page 117, and Back Matter
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