On Gangs

A comprehensive review of what is known about gangs, from their origins through their evolution and outcomes

About the author

Scott H. Decker  is Foundation Professor Emeritus in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. His books include, Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling, and Criminology and Public Policy (Temple), as well as Life in the Gang: Family, Friends, and Violence, and Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of Prison (Cambridge).

David C. Pyrooz is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of Confronting Gangs, The Handbook of Gangs and Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of Prisons.

James A. Densley is Professor and Chair of the School of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice at Metropolitan State University. He is the author of How Gangs Work: An Ethnography of Youth Violence, and Scotland’s Gang Members: Life and Crime In Glasgow.

Summary

A comprehensive review of what is known about gangs, from their origins through their evolution and outcomes

Product details

• Authors: Scott H Decker, Scott H. Decker, James A. Densley, David C. Pyrooz
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Temple Univ Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781439920633
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-2063-3
• No. of pages: 502
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 885 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories