Drawing upon forty life-history interviews with gang members in Medellín, Colombia, this paper argues that many young men join gangs to emulate and reproduce ‘successful’ local male identities. The accumulation by the gang of “masculine capital”, the material and symbolic signifiers of manhood, and accompanying stylistic and timely displays, means that youths often perceive them to be spaces of male success, driving the social reproduction of the gang. Once in the gang, they become increasingly “bad” using of violence to defend the gang’s interests in exchange for masculine capital. Gang leaders, colloquially known as duros or “hard men”, tend to be the más malo, the “baddest”. The “ganging process” should not be understood in terms of aber...
The present work approaches the transformation of the youthful gangs in the City of Mexico, specific...
The article seeks to recognize the problems surrounding former gang members, frominterviews and life...
Resumen: El artículo explora cómo se ha dado la construcción de la imagen de miembros de la Pandilla...
As of the 1960s, a new type of grouping emerged among young people living in the poorer neighborhood...
In recent years urban violence has become understood as a 'reproduced', multi-causal and socially ge...
In recent years urban violence has become understood as a 'reproduced', multi-causal and socially g...
This article analyzes the processes of socialization, taking up the theory of Social Construction of...
TRANSGANG aims to develop a renewed model for the analysis of transnational youth gangs in the globa...
Ruedo Means Respect and Power: Gangs and Violence in Bogota Youth gangs break the rules of collectiv...
Also available in an English version entitled "Gangs of Nicaragua". What is a gang? A quick overview...
ABSTRACT: A case-study of a street-gang in the Siloé barrio (Cali, Colombia) gives the opportunity t...
Street gangs -especially ‘Mara Salvatrucha’ [MS] and 18th Street Gang [18]- and student gangs are fe...
A case-study of a street-gang in the Siloé barrio (Cali, Colombia) gives the opportunity to analyze ...
The barrio gangs in the United States, formed by Latin-American youngsters, have become an indelible...
Against the approaches of positivistic criminology and securitization perspectives, that reduce Lati...
The present work approaches the transformation of the youthful gangs in the City of Mexico, specific...
The article seeks to recognize the problems surrounding former gang members, frominterviews and life...
Resumen: El artículo explora cómo se ha dado la construcción de la imagen de miembros de la Pandilla...
As of the 1960s, a new type of grouping emerged among young people living in the poorer neighborhood...
In recent years urban violence has become understood as a 'reproduced', multi-causal and socially ge...
In recent years urban violence has become understood as a 'reproduced', multi-causal and socially g...
This article analyzes the processes of socialization, taking up the theory of Social Construction of...
TRANSGANG aims to develop a renewed model for the analysis of transnational youth gangs in the globa...
Ruedo Means Respect and Power: Gangs and Violence in Bogota Youth gangs break the rules of collectiv...
Also available in an English version entitled "Gangs of Nicaragua". What is a gang? A quick overview...
ABSTRACT: A case-study of a street-gang in the Siloé barrio (Cali, Colombia) gives the opportunity t...
Street gangs -especially ‘Mara Salvatrucha’ [MS] and 18th Street Gang [18]- and student gangs are fe...
A case-study of a street-gang in the Siloé barrio (Cali, Colombia) gives the opportunity to analyze ...
The barrio gangs in the United States, formed by Latin-American youngsters, have become an indelible...
Against the approaches of positivistic criminology and securitization perspectives, that reduce Lati...
The present work approaches the transformation of the youthful gangs in the City of Mexico, specific...
The article seeks to recognize the problems surrounding former gang members, frominterviews and life...
Resumen: El artículo explora cómo se ha dado la construcción de la imagen de miembros de la Pandilla...