Anarriê, Alavantu": Folkcomunicacionation performances promoters Local Development in "Quadrilha Junina" Tradition – Recife, PE by Giselle Gomes da Silva Prazeres Souza, Ítalo Rômany de Carvalho Andrade, Severino Alves De Lucena Filho, Suelly Maux

“…The gang became the typical dance of the party, where several couples shout, intertwine between tapes and hands, like the Junina Tradition, from Morro da Conceição, on the outskirts of Recife, Pernambuco. However, the gang members of this group use dance not only as fun, but as a space of struggle, resistance, and prejudice. …”
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Understanding gang-recruitment through selective incentives : the case of Honduras. by Victoria Carmona Bozo

“…This essay considers both the shape and character of Honduran gang members and attempts to highlight the complex phenomenon of gang recruitment. …”
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Not Bowing Down by Randol Contreras

“…In the United States, some prison gangs control not only inmates, but also what happens on the street. Since most gang members eventually get detained and incarcerated, prison gangs will victimize or kill any resistors in jail and prison. …”
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The Social Network Consequences of a Gang Murder Blowout by Alice Airola, Martin Bouchard

“…The current study recreates the social network of the Red Scorpion gang members involved in the Surrey Six Murder, one of the deadliest gang-related homicides to occur in Canada. …”
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It takes two to tango: the state and organized crime in Russia by Stephenson, Svetlana

“…Using a case study conducted in Tatarstan, which included interviews with criminal gang members and representatives of law enforcement agencies and analysis of secondary data, it argues that instead of a pattern of elimination or subjugation of Russian organized crime by the state, we see a mutually reinforcing ensemble which reproduces the existing social order. …”
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CITIES OF GODDESS: ROLES AND EXPERIENCES OF WOMANHOOD IN THE MILITARIZED FAVELAS OF RIO DE JANEIRO by Amanda Pimenta da Silva

“…However, the often-neglected role and experiences of women in the context of urban violence play a pivotal role in the understandings of the dynamics of its state of affairs. Women are gang members or supporters, partners, mothers, messengers, carers for the wounded, and women endure the challenges of motherhood in violent spaces and struggle for justice for the victims assassinated by the police forces. …”
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The Problem with Templates: Learning from Organic Gang-Related Violence Reduction by Dennis Rodgers, Steffen Jensen

“…Drawing on long-term ethnographic research carried out in Nicaragua and South Africa, the article then goes on to explore why individuals leave gangs, focusing in particular on the more organic processes that deplete gangs of their members, as well as the consequences that the different possible occupational trajectories of ex-gang members can have for patterns of violence. These offer a number of potential lessons for DDR programmes, particularly with regard to reducing violence in a realistic and sustainable manner.…”
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Challenges of communication in Central America. The wall of the lynchings: the speech of the hearings before news about gangs on Facebook by Willian Carballo

“…Taking into account that gap, this research took as a sample the comments of the readers posted on Facebook after the journalistic publication of two violent acts related to gang members. The speech reflects a contradiction among the readers: on the one hand, they repudiate the violence exerted by the gangs; and on the other, they justify it and even demand it and cause them rejoicing when the sufferer is a member of gangs. …”
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Violence as an Environmentally Warranted Norm amongst Working-Class Teenage Boys in Glasgow by Christopher Holligan, Robert McLean

“…That context of violence is associated with the criminal offending of boys who, though they may not be gang members, were nevertheless ‘contaminated’ by the aggressive shadow cast by the protest masculinity of gang-conflicted territories in disadvantaged neighborhoods.…”
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PENEGAKAN HUKUM TERHADAP ANAK PELAKU TINDAK PIDANA PENGANIAYAAN SEBAGAI ANGGOTA GENG MOTOR ATAU GENGSTER by Monika Karuniasari, Eko Wahyudi

“…Therefore, this research is important to carry out considering the many cases of abuse committed by underage motorbike gang members which have a negative impact on society, especially in the city of Surabaya. …”
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PENEGAKAN HUKUM TERHADAP ANAK PELAKU TINDAK PIDANA PENGANIAYAAN SEBAGAI ANGGOTA GENG MOTOR ATAU GENGSTER by Monika Karuniasari, Eko Wahyudi

“…Therefore, this research is important to carry out considering the many cases of abuse committed by underage motorbike gang members which have a negative impact on society, especially in the city of Surabaya. …”
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Gang Risk Factors and Academic Readiness in a Southern Middle School by James Martinez, Jeremy Tost, Shani Wilfred, Larry Hilgert

“…The current Georgia study examines middle-school-aged gang and non-gang members regarding the risk factors of gang membership and potential effects of these risk factors on academic achievement. …”
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Making Friends in Violent Neighborhoods: Strategies among Elementary School Children by Anjanette M. Chan Tack, Mario L. Small

“…The literature on violence and gangs has identified coping strategies that likely affect friendships, but most children in violent neighborhoods are not gang members, and not all friendship relations involve gangs. …”
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Street Gang Intervention: Review and Good Lives Extension by Jaimee Mallion, Jane Wood

“…Findings regarding the effectiveness of prevention and intervention programs for street gang members were mixed, with unclear goals/objectives, limited theoretical foundation, and a lack of consistency in program implementation impeding effectiveness at reducing street gang involvement. …”
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Social Media and the Variable Impact of Violence Reduction Interventions: Re-Examining Focused Deterrence in Philadelphia by Jordan M. Hyatt, James A. Densley, Caterina G. Roman

“…At the heart of the intervention is a coordinated effort to communicate the costs and consequences of gun violence to identified gang members during face-to-face meetings and additional community messaging. …”
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The regional component of the jargon of street groups of the 1980s and 1990s (based on the speech material of Yoshkar-Ola) by Elena G. Tonkova, Elena S. Yarygina

“…A more detailed study of the jargon of street gang members may help change the uncritical attitude of Russian speakers towards the language of the criminal world.…”
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African American Street Lit’: old, new, or better (?) tricks? by Cécile Cottenet

“…The authors of the genre, many of whom are former gang members or convicts, followed in the steps of the best-selling pulp writers of the 1970s Donald Goines (Whoreson, Daddy Cool) and Robert Beck aka Iceberg Slim (Pimp).This urban literature can be loosely characterized as formulaic stories set in the black community, revolving around sex, drugs, guns and cash; yet they also emphasize redemption and can be read as cautionary tales for the young. …”
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"We Went in as Strangers, and Left as Friends”: Building Community in the Wahkohtowin Classroom by Sarah Buhler, Priscilla Settee, Nancy Van Styvendale

“…The class— “Wahkohtowin” (“kinship” in Cree)—brought together university students with youth from Oskayak, an Indigenous High School, and members of STR8 UP, a community-based organization for former gang members. The course centred on the theme of “justice,” and students discussed legal and literary texts related to policing, criminal trials, and prison, and shared their own experiences and stories about justice and injustice. …”
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Youth Gang Involvement and Long-Term Offending: An Examination into the Role of Psychopathic Traits by Justin J. Joseph

“…The current study found that some psychopathic traits are associated with offending behavior, longitudinally, in gang members and youth with a history of gang involvement. …”
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It Stays with You: Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti, by Cahal McLaughlin and Siobhán Wills by Ryan Shand

“…This is a powerful account of controversial policing strategies, which ostensibly targeted gang members in one of the poorest districts of Port-au-Prince. …”
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