1. Introduction to the OUP Handbook of Gangs and Society David C. Pyrooz, James A. Densley, and John Leverso Section 1: Revisiting Definitions in the 21st Century 2. The Eurogang definition: Context, development, scrutiny, and debate (including a conversation with Malcolm Klein) Frank Weerman and Scott Decker 3. What gangs aren''t: Contrasting gangs with other collectives Martin Bouchard, Karine Descormiers, and Alysha Girn 4. A relational approach to street gangs Andrew V. Papachristos, John Leverso, and David Hureau 5.
Gangs in practice: Violence prevention, law enforcement, and the received idea of the "gang" David Kennedy 6. The social construction of the American street gang Patrick Lopez-Aguado 7. Gang identity across the life course Sou Lee and Bryan F. Bubolz 8. Place matters: Geographers and gang members Stefano Bloch Section 2: Approaches to the Empirical Study of Gangs 9. The history and evolution of gang scholarship: A topic modeling and change point detection approach Jason Gravel 10. Funding gang research to advance policy and practice Phelan A. Wyrick, Barbara Tatem Kelley, and Mary Poulin Carlton 11.
The National Youth Gang Survey: Past, present, and future Meagan Cahill, James C. Howell, and Arlen Egley Jr. 12. Historical gang research methods: An overview Mitchel Roth 13. Critical approaches to gangs Tilman Schwarze and Alistair Fraser 14. Women in gang research: An overview Marta-Marika Urbanik and Sandra M. Bucerius 15. Indigenous gangs and gang research Adrienne Freng and Hannah St.
Clair 16. Studying gangs in Central and South America: Reflections on gender and researcher positionality María José Méndez and Ellen Van Damme 17. Gang research in the Caribbean Edward R. Maguire Section 3: Core and Emerging Issues 18. What is gang culture? Three conceptualizations of an elusive concept Caylin Louis Moore and Forrest Stuart 19. Masculinities and respect in the group context of gangs Lorine A. Hughes and Lisa M. Broidy 20.
Birds of a feather? Individual differences and gang membership Jennifer J. Tostlebe and Jose Antonio Sanchez 21. Rational choice, gang membership, and crime: Moving actors and choice to center stage Kyle J. Thomas 22. Psychopathology as a cause or consequence of youth gang involvement Patricia K. Kerig, Lucybel Mendez, Ava Alexander, and Susan Chen 23. The emerging frontier: Gangs in developing countries Herbert C. Covey 24.
Gang ecological diversity in the Hollenbeck area of Los Angeles, 1978-2012 P. Jeffrey Brantingham and Matthew Valasik Section 4: Gangs in Institutional Context 25. Storming the capital: The place of street capital and social capital within gangs Simon Harding and Ross Deuchar 26. On gangs and family: Primary, secondary, and surrogate family Gabriel T. Cesar, D''Andre Walker, and Tiffany Fernandez 27. Linking education and criminology research to understand the schooling experiences of gang youth and adults Adrian H. Huerta 28. Religion and gangs: An introduction to the isolated and integrated affiliation models Timothy R.
Lauger and Haleigh Kubiniec 29. Re-examining the literature on social media and gangs: Critical race theory as a path for new opportunities Caitlin Elsaesser and Desmond Patton 30. Comparative approaches to the study of prison gangs and prison order David Skarbek and Kaitlyn Woltz 31. Transnational gangs? Understanding migration and gangs José Miguel Cruz and Jonathan D. Rosen Section 5: Legacies of Second-Generation Researchers 32. The legacy of Scott H. Decker David C. Pyrooz and Richard K.
Moule Jr. 33. The legacy of Finn-Aage Esbensen Dena C. Carson, Adrienne Freng, Chris Melde, and Dana Peterson 34. The legacy of John M. Hagedorn Roberto R. Aspholm 35. The legacy of Cheryl L.
Maxson Shannon E. Reid 36. The legacy of Joan W. Moore James Diego Vigil 37. The legacy of James Diego Vigil Mike Tapia and E. Mark Moreno Section 6: Responding to Gangs 38. Clinical intervention for gang-involved youth: Toward an empirically validated model Paul Boxer, Joanna Kubik, and Stephanie Marcello 39. No public benefit: The Placentia gang injunction opposition campaign Sean Garcia-Leys and Jesse Engel 40.
"Somebody''s watching me:" Surveying police surveillance of gangs Matthew Valasik and P. Jeffrey Brantingham 41. Policing gangs: Five reasons why traditional strategies fail Madeleine Novich 42. Defund the police? Considerations for reducing gang violence Anthony A. Braga, John M. MacDonald, and George Tita 43. Making sense of the models: Continuities and differences across prominent gang/group gun violence intervention models Jesse Jannetta, Paige S. Thompson, and Lily Robin.