This updated and expanded new edition continues the theme of the first edition of
emphasizing the substantial growth of street gangs throughout the world. Although a …

The hypothesis that violence—especially gang violence—behaves like a contagious
disease has grown in popularity in recent years. Scholars have long observed the tendency …

Proud Boys, a contemporary radical extremist group has exploited the convenience and
reach of social media platforms to spread its hateful ideology. To combat this spread, this …

Radical right actors routinely use social media to spread highly divisive, disruptive, and anti-
democratic messages. Assessing and countering such content is crucial for ensuring that …

Trust in the government is an important dimension of happiness according to the World
Happiness Report (Skelton, 2022). Recently, social media platforms have been exploited to …

The continued public presence of far‐right groups, particularly alt‐right gangs (eg, Proud
Boys) participating in mass demonstrations and protests across the United States has made …

This study examines the relationship between online communication by the Proud Boys and
their offline activities. We use a supervised machine learning model to analyze a novel …

Radical right influencers routinely use social media to spread highly divisive, disruptive and
anti-democratic messages. Assessing and countering the challenge that such content poses …

The mythos surrounding white power groups, such as racist skinheads, requires a critical
analysis. This is especially true for demystifying the belief that, white power youth groups (ie …

This chapter develops Lauger and Rivera's (2022) isolated and integrated affiliation models
to explore how gang membership may intersect with religion to influence behavior. The …