Table of contents for Gangs and society : alternative perspectives / edited by Louis Kontos, David Brotherton, and Luis Barrios.

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PART 1 THEORY AND METHODOLOGY 1

1 A Note on Social Theory and the American Street Gang
   SUDHIR VENKATESH 3

2 Toward a Typology of Contemporary Mexican American
   Youth Gangs
   AVELARDO VALDEZ 12

3 The Negligible Role of Gangs in Drug Distribution in New York
   City in the I99os
   RIC CURTIS 41

4 Marginal Youth, Personal Identity, and the Contemporary Gang:
   Reconstructing the Social World?
   KEVIN MCDONALD 62


PART 2 GANGS AND POLITICS 75

5 Gangs and the Contemporary Urban Struggle: An Unappreciated
   Aspect of Gangs
   ALBERT DiCHIARA AND RUSSELL CHABOT 77

6 Urban Street Activists: Gang and Community Efforts to Bring
    Peace and Justice to Los Angeles Neighborhoods
    JUAN FRANCISCO ESTEVA MARTINEZ 95


PART 3 GANGS, AGENCY, AND AT-RISK YOUTH            117

7  The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation and the Spirituality
    of Resistance: Agency, Social Cohesion, and Liberating Rituals
    in the Making of a Street Organization.
    LUIS BARRIOS 119

8  Education in the Reform of Street Organizations in New York City
    DAVID BROTHERTON 136



PART 4 WOMEN AND GANGS 159

9  Liberating Yet Limiting: The Paradox of Female Gang Membership
   DANA NURGE 161

10 Amor de Reina! The Pushes and Pulls of Group Membership among
   the Latin Queens
   DAVID BROTHERTON AND CAMILA SALAZAR-ATIAS 183


PART 5 GANGS AND SOCIAL CONTROL 211

11 Gangs and the Law
   LOREN SIEGEL 213

12 The Gang Crackdown in the Prisons of Massachusetts:
   Arbitrary and Harsh Treatment Can Only Make Matters Worse
   PHILLIP KASSEL 228


PART 6 GANGS AND PHOTOGRAPHY 253

13 On the Subject of Gang Photography
   RICHARD RODRIGUEZ 255

14 From Civil War to Gang War: The Tragedy of Edgar Bolanos
   DONNA DsCESARE 283

15 Snapshots of a Movement: The New York Latin Kings and
   Queens 1996-99
   STEVE HART AND DAVID BROTHERTON 314