Pathways to Gang Involvement and Drug Distribution Social, Environmental, and Psychological Factors /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Lien, Inger-Lise (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Criminology.; Social Sciences.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.

This book uses a multi-methods study of incarcerated youths to examine the pathways to gang involvement, the drug distribution system and hierarchy within gangs, levels of traumatic stress and depression among gang-involved youths, and other mechanisms of control and retention within the system of g...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Research in Prison: Methodology, Aims, and Questions
• Prison as a Context
• Recruitment and Ways Into Gangs
• Drug Distribution as a System
• Supportive Functions: Flow of Money, Networks, Trust and Power Systems
• Violence inside the Distribution System
• Violence and Emotions
• Traumatic Stress: Levels of Belonging inside Gangs.- Personality Disorders
• System Maintenance and Destruction: System Sustainability and Ways Out
• Conclusions.