Based on social media content analysis and focus groups with young people, the current
study explores expressive and instrumental uses of the internet among street gangs.'Trap …

Whilst criminologists, sociologists and policy-makers fuel a perennial debate over the
existential value of the 'gang', 1 the Criminal Justice System (CJS) in England and Wales …

Objective The study of gang members is closely linked to the self-nomination method. It is
timely to revisit the criterion validity of self-nomination, as recent theoretical and empirical …

Drawing on comparative work between Australia and England and Wales, this article
considers issues of criminalization, racialization and youth justice. The article explores both …

The 2011 'summer of violent disorder'in England cast a spotlight on the often arbitrary and
uneven process through which individuals become labelled as 'gang-members'. Based on …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Criminological Research Page 3 Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE
Publishing in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global …

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 …

Introduction 1 one Global perspectives on urban youth violence 13 two The 2011 English
riots 47 three Gangs in the UK? 77 four Policing the gang crisis 113 five Policy, prevention …

Since 2004, the Sage Key Approaches to Criminology series has been publishing books
that bring together distinct disciplines or fields in order to reflect and celebrate criminology's …

Evolution of gang and gang member definitions is elaborated. Aggressively addressed are
the reviews of gang definition history by colleagues, as well as those who find all existing …