Focusing on the past decade, this review considers advances in the qualitative study of
working poverty, welfare reform, patterns of family formation, neighborhood effects, class …

" Certainly, prisons are dangerous places that impact the communities as well as the lives of
inmates and those who work there. Over the last several years, prison gangs have made …

How do poverty, youth and crime relate to the concept of being'cool'? Jonathan Ilan presents
a unique, theoretically informed overview of street culture in various parts of the world–its …

Refusing to cast gangs in solely criminal terms, Robert J. Durán, a former gang member
turned scholar, recasts such groups as an adaptation to the racial oppression of colonization …

The present study conceptualizes gang membership in a life-course framework. The authors
focus specifically on an understudied aspect of gang membership—desistance. This study's …

Informal economic activity is a significant part of world production and distribution. This
chapter reviews different core definitions (informal economic activities versus informal …

Researchers and theorists have described violent street gang subcultures in the USA as a
response to the intersecting forces of marginalization inflicted on minority communities. Most …

While much recent attention has been focused on the impact of incarceration on ex-
prisoners, less has been paid to the general public's informal attitudes and responses to …

In this paper, I employ analyses of the collateral consequences of mass incarceration to
consider how high‐incarceration communities are impacted by socializing processes …

Gang members are overrepresented among incarcerated populations in the United States.
The link between incarceration and gang membership is beyond dispute, but serious …