Race, Ethnicity, and Gang Violence: Exploring Multicultural Tensions in Contemporary Danish Cinema by Kate Moffat

“… ABSTRACT: One of the most striking genre conventions to emerge in Danish cinema in recent years is the gangster motif. Replete with gritty social realism, urban decay, and tribal warfare between different ethnic groups, these films reflect a growing discontent in the Danish welfare state, particularly regarding multiculturalism and inclusion. …”
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Battle after Victory: Causes of the Post-War Crime Rate Increase (1945–1950) by A. D. Popova

“…The author studied archival documents of the Chief Department of Gang Prevention, as well as memoirs written by militia officers and common citizens. The increase in gangsterism and crime in general presented a serious challenge for the country that had just won the most terrible war in human history. …”
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<i>La Celestina</i> and the Popularization of Graphic Criminal Violence by Ted L. Bergman

“…The addition (sometimes by others) of gangster-laden texts, such as the «autos» of Centurio and Traso, along with details from sixteenth-century woodcuts, and increased criminality in La Celestina's «sequels», all reveal the audience's increased desire to see violent lawbreakers at work and at play.…”
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A study on the factors that contribute to truancy among secondary school students in Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Taman Ria, Sungai Petani, Kedah / Nuratikah Jeffry and Nur Amalina... by Jeffry, Nuratikah, Ayob, Nur Amalina Syazana

“…Truancy can lead to serious issues such as vandalism, gangsterism and any crime action. Truancy should be taken seriously by all parties because the youngster is the one that will lead in the future generation. …”
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Changing Role of Counselors in Schools and Institutions of Higher Education by See, Ching Mey

“…Today, schools and institutions of higher education are faced with multitude of complex and multifactored problems, including poverty, gangsterism, violence, drugs, poor academic achievement, and mental health problem such as anxiety and depression. …”
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Moral Education In Tamil Primary Schools In Malaysia: A Look Into Reality by Balakrishnan, Vishalache, Shoniah, Supramani

“…The social issues and gangsterism rates among Indian adolescents have been in the rise in Malaysia over the last decade (Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah, Polis Diraja Malaysia, 2003). …”
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The Legacies of Bindy Johal: The Contemporary Folk Devil or Sympathetic Hero by Manjit Pabla

“…A folk devil has the ability to elicit a community’s fear over crime. Notorious late gangster, Bindy Johal, occupies this position as his legacy stirs the social anxieties over gang violence by some in the Punjabi-Sikh community in Western Canada. …”
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Absolving the American guilt: forgiveness and purification in Clint Eastwood’s cinema by Antonio Sánchez-Escalonilla

“…According to Scott, Unforgiven marks the beginning of the filmmaker's authorship stage, where scenarios of diverse genres, such as road movie, war cinema or gangster plots introduce protagonists who coincide in their need for purification. …”
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Struktur multiple narrative dalam filem-filem kontemporari Malaysia. Kajian kes terhadap filem Cinta, Gubra dan Ganster / Al Mubarakah Suleiman by Suleiman, Al Mubarakah

“…Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah kualitatif dengan menggunakan beberapa teori naratif daripada David Bordwell, Edward Branigan dan Robert McKee dalam filem Cinta (2006), Gubra (2006) dan Gangster (2003). Pengkaji mendapati bahawa para pengarah filem-filem tersebut mengaplikasikan struktur multiple narrative dalam filem arahan mereka untuk membawa kelainan dalam menyampaikan keseluruhan filem kepada penonton.…”
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Comparative Racialization and Unequal Justice in the Era of Black Lives Matter: The Dylan Yang Case by Pao Lee Vue

“…Unpacking the effects of the gangster stereotype, especially for Southeast Asian youth, we suggest how, despite the Asian American model minority trope, Hmong American boys have been racialized as monstrous thugs comparable (but not identical) to their black and Latino counterparts, and thus treated by law enforcement as suspects in need of “cataloging” as part of the school-to-prison pipeline. …”
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Efficiency of probationer servicemen correction: search for the criteria by Ponomaryov E.P.

“…They are: participation in operations on destroying gangster squads; release of hostages; conducting rescue activities; taking epidemiological, anti-gas and radiative measures directly in the centre of destruction.…”
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“Only I Am the Brahma”: Religion and Narrative in the Netflix Thriller Series <i>Sacred Games</i> (2018–2019) by Ana Ashraf

“…This series shows how the lives of a Sikh policeman, Sartaj Singh, and a powerful gangster, Ganesh Eknath Gaitonde, weave together in a mission to save Mumbai from a nuclear attack. …”
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BEYOND BOURGEOIS LIBERALIZATION: A PATHWAY TO THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM by David S. Pena

“…Bourgeois liberalization claims to be a path forward to modernity, but it actually leads to social collapse, gangsterism, fascism, and subjugation by imperialism. …”
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Emotional Hooligan: Post-Subcultural Research and the Histories of Britain’s Football Gangs by Tarik Sabry

“…The argument also incorporates the notion that the methodological work which should be undertaken is a study of the simulacrum of hooliganism, the expanding body of football hooligan literature in all of its forms manifesting itself in literary novels and the explosion of ‘gangster’ memoirs of older football hooligans, which might eventually lead us to better, more informed ethnographies of football hooligan subcultures. …”
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Fiskar skriker när de dör by Dag Hedman

“…Big uses a coral reef as an outré instrument of execution; he ends his life as leopard shark food when he falls into the sea at the reef. The gangster Milton Krest poisons an entire coral reef with thousands of fish just to catch one single specimen of an extremely rare fish, the Hildebrand Rarity; his murderer stuffs the Hildebrand Rarity into his mouth, and the spines of the dorsal and anal fins catch inside his cheeks, thus causing him to suffocate. …”
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Identity as an Organizing Idea of New Vocabulary and Phraseology by T. V. Leontyeva, A. V. Shchetinina

“…The “fourth wave of words” (after the gangster, professional, glamorous) is proposed to be considered the youth, which is formed in Internet communication and expresses the desire of this age category (youth) to know themselves, their values, belonging, purpose and place in the world.…”
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BIBLIOTHERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES FOR USE BY SOCIAL WORKERS AND CAREGIVERS by Iralda Oelofsen, Herman Grobler

“…Children who do not experience this sense of belonging can easily become involved in gangster activities, promiscuity or substance dependence in order to secure a false sense of belonging (Brendtro, Brokenleg & Van Bockern, 2002:9). …”
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Designing and Explaining a Model for the Formation of Cronyism in the Organization by Masood Sepahvand, Mohamad Hakkak, Reza Sepahvand, Amirhooshang Nazarpouri

“…Originality: Presenting a model for organizational cronyism, which includes the most important and underlying factors in the fields of nepotism and gangsterism, the present research can help policymakers and researchers find out the roots of these factors and subsequently, implement strategies and mechanisms to overcome the negative consequences. …”
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MENGINTAI AKU DI NERAKA : "Berteduh dilangit yang hilang" / by Hadi Fayyadh, 1988-, author 626136

“…Ketika malam pertama dia mengunjunginya, dia di sapa oleh seorang lelaki yang melecur separuh badan, dan kelihatannya tak ubah seperti gangster kelab malam. Dia dipelawa minum arak bersamanya. …”

Drsná škola: Zrod literatúry z ducha pulp magazínov a cesta späť.(HARD-BOILED SCHOOL: THE BIRTH OF LITERATURE COMING FROM THE PULP MAGAZINES AND A WAY BACK ) by Tomáš Horváth

“…The term “hard-boiled school” overlaps the genre boarders of a detective story and covers wider genre field (e.g. gangster novel and criminal story of a murder in case of James Caine a Jim Thompson). …”
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