Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society
Editorial Reviews
Christian Science Monitor
"The value of this extraordinary book . . . is that it offers bold and fresh thinking on a subject that desperately needs it. . . . It helps demystify gangs, presenting them as human organizations with human members, not as evil or pitiful creatures to be either despised or patronized."
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"Vivid, lively, and yet theoretically informed, a triumph of patient and sustained fieldwork. . . . Jankowski presents the gang and its members not as pathological departures from social norms, but as shrewd and resourceful operators."--Michael Lipsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Islands in the Street fills a wide gap in the literature on gangs. Jankowski's innovative model of gang participation and organization is important and elegant, guaranteeing that this will be the book on gangs for the next ten years, if not longer."--Ruth Horowitz, University of Delaware
Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society
Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society,Martin Sanchez Jankowski,University of California Press,0520074343,General,History,History: American,Politics / Current Events,United States - General,Organized crime,Social Science / Sociology / General,USA,Urban communities,Violence in society
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