Purpose The current study examines the mobility patterns of gang associates in East Los
Angeles using Field Investigation (FI) cards collected by police officers to document informal …

While criminology can claim a large gang literature that speaks to theory and taxonomies,
there are still inconsistencies and gaps. With this in mind, changes over the past years in the …

Using in-depth interviews with current and former gang members in Bexar County, Texas,
and Orange County, Florida, this research examines the processes and methods of joining …

While violence across the United States has declined dramatically over the past two
decades, gang-related crimes remain at unacceptably high rates, especially within the city of …

Numerous research studies conducted in the past decade have focused on gangs and gang
violence. The results from these studies have assisted law enforcement agencies in …

This is a summary of a study that sought to provide focused, databased guidelines for gang
intervention and control. It also attempted to estimate the national prevalence of various …

This paper examines the social ecology of gang activity in Fort Worth, Texas, a community
with decades-long and recent growth in Latino immigrant populations. Focusing on the …

The studies focused on emerging versus chronic gang sites and explored the gang situation
at the three sites based on police department records. Consideration was also paid to gang …

During the 1990s, gangs began to gain a foothold in many suburban and rural areas (Klein,
1995). As a result, communities that previously had considered themselves insulated from …

Objective To assess the effect of civil gang injunctions on crime. Methods We use data on
the location and date of 46 gang injunctions between 1993 and 2013 and quarterly crimes …