Gang Life in Two Cities: An Insider's Journey

by Robert J. Duraan, Robert J. Duran, Robert J. Durán

Book Overview

Refusing to cast gangs in solely criminal terms, Robert J. Dur n, a former gang member turned scholar, recasts such groups as an adaptation to the racial oppression of colonization in the American Southwest. Developing a paradigm rooted in ethnographic research and almost two decades of direct experience with gangs, Dur n completes the first-ever study to follow so many marginalized groups so intensely for so long, revealing their core characteristics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023115867X
• ISBN13: 9780231158671
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher