Add to ORKGA common perspective on variations in the gang problem over time emphasizes fabricated or exaggerated “panics ” that serve the interests of law enforcement and the media. The evidence for these constructionist arguments has been largely anecdotal and discursive and based on specific locals. This article examines FBI Supplemental Homicide data on youth gang killings and National Youth Gang Survey data on estimated gang members in relation to LexisNexis and Vanderbilt Television News Archive data on media coverage of gangs. Overall, the results support a realist view that surges or trends in the gang problem were actual patterns based on real events rather than media or law enforcement fabrications. Keyword
Crime has gone down, but fear remains high. This high fear level indicates that the recent hard-hitt...
There were over 1.4 million active gang members in the United States as of 2011—an increase of forty...
Gang crime and resulting public fear became a major policy focus during the 1990s, yet few studies s...
The popular image of youth gangs is largely dependent on law enforcement data and subsequent media r...
Some social scientists contend that the nature, frequency, and severity of a particular condition or...
Although police officers, health, welfare and educational professionals, local residents and their c...
The youth gang issue, as of yet, has not been addressed in its totality in gang policy. Rather, poli...
Gang members commit a disproportionate amount of crime, especially violent crime, in the United Stat...
While the media often portrays a stark line between the victims of crime and offenders the reality i...
Despite previous research, there remains no consensus on definitions of who is a gang member, what i...
This article introduces the concept of ‘gang glocalization’ to capture the processes by which global...
over a three-year period in an impoverished, predominately African American and Latino neighborhood ...
We hypothesize the failure of government to protect the rights of individuals from violence committe...
Gangs feature prominently in popular culture, from novels, songs and more recently film and video ga...
The spread of youth gangs to nonmetropolitan counties in the 1990s has been widely cited but difficu...
Crime has gone down, but fear remains high. This high fear level indicates that the recent hard-hitt...
There were over 1.4 million active gang members in the United States as of 2011—an increase of forty...
Gang crime and resulting public fear became a major policy focus during the 1990s, yet few studies s...
The popular image of youth gangs is largely dependent on law enforcement data and subsequent media r...
Some social scientists contend that the nature, frequency, and severity of a particular condition or...
Although police officers, health, welfare and educational professionals, local residents and their c...
The youth gang issue, as of yet, has not been addressed in its totality in gang policy. Rather, poli...
Gang members commit a disproportionate amount of crime, especially violent crime, in the United Stat...
While the media often portrays a stark line between the victims of crime and offenders the reality i...
Despite previous research, there remains no consensus on definitions of who is a gang member, what i...
This article introduces the concept of ‘gang glocalization’ to capture the processes by which global...
over a three-year period in an impoverished, predominately African American and Latino neighborhood ...
We hypothesize the failure of government to protect the rights of individuals from violence committe...
Gangs feature prominently in popular culture, from novels, songs and more recently film and video ga...
The spread of youth gangs to nonmetropolitan counties in the 1990s has been widely cited but difficu...
Crime has gone down, but fear remains high. This high fear level indicates that the recent hard-hitt...
There were over 1.4 million active gang members in the United States as of 2011—an increase of forty...
Gang crime and resulting public fear became a major policy focus during the 1990s, yet few studies s...