This study contributes to an emerging literature both detailing Internet usage among street
gangs and gang members and exploring how street life is presented in underground rap …

Purpose The way in which criminologists understand, contextualise and theorise around the
mediatised world has raised some critical new questions. The purpose of this paper is to …

This chapter focuses on one of the challenges in particular, namely, the links between gang-
related activity in the virtual world and gang-related violence in the real world. It takes a …

It was once presumed that costs of Internet adoption were too great for gang members to
absorb. They lacked the financial resources to access the Internet or the technological know …

The use of the Internet and social media among gang members is a topic of growing interest
for scholars. Research indicates that gang members use the Internet for delinquent …

Urban ethnographers studying gangs and troublesome youth groups have traditionally
faced distinct ethical and methodological challenges in their work as compared to other …

Summary The Eurogang Program of Research is a loosely knit network of researchers and
policymakers with an interest in better understanding troublesome youth groups. While the …