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The Gang Paradox – Inequalities and Miracles on the U.S.–Mexico Border: Studies in Transgression

Autor Robert J. Durán
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 sep 2018
Robert J. Durán analyzes the impact of deportation, incarceration, and racialized perceptions of criminality on Latino families and youth along the U.S.-Mexico border. He finds significantly less gang membership and activity than common fearmongering claims would have us believe.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231181075
ISBN-10: 0231181078
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 227 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press
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Notă biografică

Robert J. Durán is associate professor of sociology at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Gang Life in Two Cities: An Insider¿s Journey (Columbia, 2013).

Cuprins

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