The gang paradox : inequalities and miracles on the U.S.-Mexico border /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Durán, Robert J., author.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Description:	xiii, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in transgression Studies in transgression.
Subject:	Gangs -- Mexican-American Border Region. Crime -- Mexican-American Border Region. Youth -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions. Crime. Gangs. Social conditions. Youth -- Social conditions. Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions. North America -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11695740

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ISBN:	9780231181075 0231181078 9780231181068 023118106X 9780231543439 0231543433
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. A Revisionist History
1. The Context for the Origination of Gangs: Double Colonization
2. The Formation of Gangs in El Chuco
3. Moral Panic Under a Research Microscope: The Organizational Scene Prior to Arrival
Part II. An Ethnographic Foundation
4. How Youth of Mexican Descent Encounter Criminalization
5. Contradictions in Law Enforcement
6. Participatory Action Research Teams at a Minority-Serving Institution
7. Empirical Miracles and Where Do We Go from Here?
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Methods
Appendix 2. Development of Gangs Timeline in the New Mexico/Texas Region
Notes
References
Index

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