A background in 'ordinary'crime, violence and drug use seems to characterize many
European individuals recently involved in ISIS-related jihadi violence. With its long tradition …

Discussions about the gang construct and appropriate definitions have been pervasive
throughout gang research. This paper seeks to shed light on these discussions by adopting …

For over a decade, jihadi terrorism in Europe, and the recruitment of Europeans to fight for
ISIS in Syria, have increasingly involved marginalized youths from a social context of street …

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 …

Research on the new crime-terror nexus has focused on examining the confluences of
criminal and jihadist milieus. This article contributes to this research, using insights from …

This chapter explores how social media have allowed Alt-Right gangs to advance not only
their ideology and subculture online, but to facilitate organizing in the physical world …

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Scholars rarely compare youth gangs members and extremists. Yet, studies of gangs can
yield relevant information on extremist groups, and vice versa. This article compares youth …

Gangs are associated with a range of social, criminal, and economic harms. Yet, after almost
a century of dedicated research, the development of effective and ethical responses to such …

This article paints the portrait of Yvan, a skinhead who lived in close proximity to the streets
and to life at the margins, with all its attendant violence, before dying at the age of 28. While …