James Diego Vigil

Multiple Marginality and Gangs

Through a Prism Darkly

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Multiple Marginality and Gangs: Through a Prism Darkly, James Diego Vigil unravels the youth gang problem in America. Vigil uses a multidimensional approach that encompasses the place, status, and social control of urban street gangs and highlights associated subcultural and identity facets.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9781793613318
• ISBN-10: 1793613311
• Artikelnr.: 58527320

Autorenporträt

James Diego Vigil is professor of social ecology at the University of California, Irvine.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Multiple Marginality, A Comparative Framework for
Understanding Gangs
Chapter Two: The Place and Status Facets of Marginality: Ecology and
Socioeconomics
Chapter Three: Strains on Families
Chapter Four: The Broad Refraction of Education
Chapter Five: Police as the Last Bastions of Social Control
Chapter Six: Recent Changes and Developments in Gang Marginality
Chapter Seven: Street Socialization and Street Identity: The Fall of the
Self and the Rise of the Group
Chapter Eight: Forging Policies from Time, Place, and People
Bibliography
Index
About the Author