This article examines a grossly neglected area of the street gang literature: the nature and
extent of gang organisation. Based upon fieldwork with gangs in London, UK, this article …

Based on fieldwork with gangs and interviews with gang members in London, United
Kingdom, this article illustrates how recreation, crime, enterprise, and extralegal governance …

Street gangs, by definition, enjoy a special relationship with the street. Prior research shows
that some communities are synonymous with gangs and that turf holds a combination of …

The aim of the current study was to understand how gangs have changed in the past 10
years since Pitts'(2008) study in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The study …

Young street gangs (YSGs) in Scotland are considered recreational youth outfits bound up
in issues of territoriality and protest masculinities. While YSGs occasionally engage in …

This chapter explores the relevance of 'territory'–variously understood–with regard to youth
gangs, using data arising from an ethnographic study of youth gangs in an English city …

This article uses data from interviews with 69 self-described members and associates of
street gangs in London to explore how young people choose their actions and construct …

This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent'the new face of youth
crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at the heart of sexual violence, mass …

This essay places gangs in the broader context of organized criminal groups, including
transnational organized crime, drug smuggling networks, human trafficking operations, and …

Abstract The Scottish government's (2008) publication 'The road to recovery: A new
approach to tackling Scotland's drug problem'elaborates and outlines the Scottish National …