Gangs - A Guide to Understanding Street Gangs - 4th Edition

This popular text is a comprehensive guide for law enforcement and criminal justice-related professionals, mental health professionals, teachers and parents. It includes gang life style, sociology and characteristics of: Latino, Asian, African-American, White Supremacists, Prison, Outlaw Motorcycle, Occult and Hybrid gangs. The author, Al Valdez, had been in law enforcement for over 17 years and has presented formal gang training to hundreds of police officers, investigators and probation officers, as well as gang awareness classes for parents and teachers.


   
Table of Contents:

Chapter 1  American Street Gangs
Chapter 2  Gang Violence
Chapter 3  Can Gang Membership be Predicted?
Chapter 4  Being on the Same Page
Chapter 5  Gang Sociology
Chapter 6  Gang Growth, Migration and Studies
Chapter 7  Gang Behaviors
Chapter 8  Membership Mentality
Chapter 9  Membership Indica
Chapter 10  West Coast Latino Gangs
Chapter 11  Sureno-Norteno Gangs
Chapter 12  18th Street Gang
Chapter 13  Mara Salvatrucha
Chapter 14  Asian Gangs
Chapter 15  Tiny Rascal Gang
Chapter 16  Wah Ching
Chapter 17  Asian Boyz
Chapter 18  African-American Gangs
Chapter 19  United Blood Nation
Chapter 20  Skinhead Gangs
Chapter 21  Nazi Low Riders
Chapter 22  Public Enemy Number One
Chapter 23  Photo Gallery
Chapter 24  Straight Edge
Chapter 25  American Militias
Chapter 26  National Alliance
Chapter 27  Tagger Crews
Chapter 28  Party Crews, Posses and Clubs
Chapter 29  Occult Gangs
Chapter 30  The Goth Scene
Chapter 31  Hybrid Gangs
Chapter 32  Midwest and East Coast Gangs
Chapter 33  Jamacian Gangs
Chapter 34  Female Gangs
Chapter 35  Motorcycle Gangs
Chapter 36  Prison Gangs
Chapter 37  Gangs in the Military
Chapter 38  Native American Gangs
Chapter 39  Gangs and Schools
Chapter 40  T.A.R.G.E.T.
Chapter 41  Substance Abuse and Gangs
Chapter 42  Gangs and Family
Chapter 43  Non-Violent Gang Crime
Chapter 44  Gangs and Corrections
Chapter 45  Summary
Chapter 46  Gangs in 2010

576 pages of gang information, including over 170 photos.