Multiple Marginality and Gangs - Through a Prism Darkly

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

By James Diego Vigil

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: James Diego Vigil
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781793613332
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-333-2
• No. of pages: 140
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Anthropology, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Crime & criminology, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, Hispanic & Latino Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General