Full Description
The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society is the premier reference book on gangs for practitioners, policymakers, students, and scholars. This carefully curated volume contains 43 chapters written by the leading experts in the field, who advance a central theme of "looking back, moving forward" by providing state-of-the-art reviews of the literature they created, shaped, and (re)defined. This international, interdisciplinary collective of authors provides readers with a rare tour of the field in its entirety, expertly navigating thorny debates and the at-times contentious history of gang research, while simultaneously synthesizing flourishing areas of study that advance the field into the 21st century.
The volume is divided into six cohesive sections that reflect the diverse field of gang studies and capture the large-scale cultural, economic, political, and social changes occurring within the world of gangs in the last century; anticipating immense changes on the horizon. From definitions to history to theory to epistemology to technology to policy and practice, this unprecedented volume captures the most timely and important topics in the field.
From curious outsiders to longstanding insiders, this volume will appeal to anyone with an interest in gangs. The editors assembled a cast of the best scholars shaping how the field thinks about gangs. The content is fresh, timely, and informative, appealing to everyone from the armchair theorist to the federal policymaker. It is truly a one-stop shop for anyone seeking the most up-to-date information on gangs, written by experts who approach the topic from very different disciplinary orientations, methodological approaches, and theoretical perspectives. When readers finish this book, they will be more confident in what we know and do not know about gangs in our society.
Contents
1. Introduction to the OUP Handbook of Gangs and Society
David C. Pyrooz, James A. Densley, and John Leverso
Section 1: Revisiting Definitions in the 21st Century
2. The Eurogang definition: Context, development, scrutiny, and debate (including a conversation with Malcolm Klein)
Frank Weerman and Scott Decker
3. What gangs aren't: Contrasting gangs with other collectives
Martin Bouchard, Karine Descormiers, and Alysha Girn
4. A relational approach to street gangs
Andrew V. Papachristos, John Leverso, and David Hureau
5. Gangs in practice: Violence prevention, law enforcement, and the received idea of the " Surveying police surveillance of gangs
Matthew Valasik and P. Jeffrey Brantingham
41. Policing gangs: Five reasons why traditional strategies fail
Madeleine Novich
42. Defund the police? Considerations for reducing gang violence
Anthony A. Braga, John M. MacDonald, and George Tita
43. Making sense of the models: Continuities and differences across prominent gang/group gun violence intervention models
Jesse Jannetta, Paige S. Thompson, and Lily Robin
