Barrio Gangs street life and identity in Southern California
Publisher description: James D. Vigil asserts that only by understanding the complex factors that give birth and persistence to gangs can gang violence be ended. Drawing on many years of experience in the barrios as a youth worker, high school teacher, and researcher, Vigil identifies the elements f...
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| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
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Austin
Univ. of Texas Pr.
1988
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| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Mexican American monograph
12 |
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Américains d'origine mexicaine - États-Unis - Los Angeles (Calif.) - Identité collective
> Bandes de jeunes - États-Unis - Los Angeles (Calif.)
> Gangs - Californie - Los Angeles
> Jeunesse américaine d'origine mexicaine - Californie - Los Angeles - Identité ethnique
> Jóvenes mexicano americanos - Los Angeles, EE.UU - Indentidad étnica
> Gangs
> Mexican American criminals
> Mexican American youth
> Ethnic identity
> Jugendbande
> Chicanos
> Soziale Identität
> Kalifornien
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Publisher description: James D. Vigil asserts that only by understanding the complex factors that give birth and persistence to gangs can gang violence be ended. Drawing on many years of experience in the barrios as a youth worker, high school teacher, and researcher, Vigil identifies the elements from which gangs spring: isolation from the dominant culture, poverty, family stress and crowded households, peer pressure, and the adolescent struggle for self-identity. Using interviews with actual gang members, he reveals how the gang often functions as parent, school, and law enforcement in the absence of other role models in the gang members' lives. And he accounts for the longevity of gangs, sometimes over decades, by showing how they offer barrio youth a sense of identity and belonging nowhere else available. |
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| Beschreibung: | XV, 202 S. |
| ISBN: | 0292776136 0-292-77613-6 |