This thesis surveys the tacit knowledge held by forty-three Victoria Police Officers to determine what constitutes a street gang. The officers, from a broad range of operational policing positions within metropolitan and country police stations, provide both an insight into how street gang presence is recognised and evidence that community perceptions of safety, is influenced by gang behaviour. This is the first research of its kind conducted in this country within Australian law enforcement agencies and the new knowledge gained will provide agencies who have the responsibility in addressing this phenomenon, with an empirically-based aid for determining what is or isn’t a street gang. Analysis of data identifies eight key themes of which th...
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 14, 2010)Includes bibliographical references (p....
Owing to a number of high profile shootings in the UK over the past decade, there has been a signifi...
element in the manner in which policing and the criminalisation of young people occurs in Australian...
This paper provides an exploration and overview of issues pertaining to gang formation, and to gang...
Recent years have seen an upsurge of attention paid to street gangs as scholars and criminal justice...
This paper provides an exploration and overview of issues pertaining to gang formation, and to gang...
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012. All rights reserved. Owing to a number of high-profile ...
Despite previous research, there remains no consensus on definitions of who is a gang member, what i...
The purpose of this study is to examine how law enforcement identifies and responds to symbols of ga...
Based upon two years of ethnographic fieldwork in London, England, which incorporated nearly 200 int...
Gang-involved shootings comprise a serious problem. A Manchester-based project addressing the issue ...
The purpose of this study is to examine how law enforcement identifies and responds to symbols of ga...
Based upon two years of ethnographic fieldwork in London, England, which incorporated nearly 200 int...
Based upon two years of ethnographic fieldwork in London, England, which incorporated nearly 200 int...
Based on in-depth interviews with 42 current and ex- street offenders, this study explores the relat...
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 14, 2010)Includes bibliographical references (p....
Owing to a number of high profile shootings in the UK over the past decade, there has been a signifi...
element in the manner in which policing and the criminalisation of young people occurs in Australian...
This paper provides an exploration and overview of issues pertaining to gang formation, and to gang...
Recent years have seen an upsurge of attention paid to street gangs as scholars and criminal justice...
This paper provides an exploration and overview of issues pertaining to gang formation, and to gang...
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012. All rights reserved. Owing to a number of high-profile ...
Despite previous research, there remains no consensus on definitions of who is a gang member, what i...
The purpose of this study is to examine how law enforcement identifies and responds to symbols of ga...
Based upon two years of ethnographic fieldwork in London, England, which incorporated nearly 200 int...
Gang-involved shootings comprise a serious problem. A Manchester-based project addressing the issue ...
The purpose of this study is to examine how law enforcement identifies and responds to symbols of ga...
Based upon two years of ethnographic fieldwork in London, England, which incorporated nearly 200 int...
Based upon two years of ethnographic fieldwork in London, England, which incorporated nearly 200 int...
Based on in-depth interviews with 42 current and ex- street offenders, this study explores the relat...
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 14, 2010)Includes bibliographical references (p....
Owing to a number of high profile shootings in the UK over the past decade, there has been a signifi...
element in the manner in which policing and the criminalisation of young people occurs in Australian...