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Investigaciones Geográficas, 2012 The aim of this paper is to contribute to knowledge of 'transnational' youth gangs in the Central American region, through an analysis of the mutually constitutive processes of identity, space and place production.
Alisa Winton
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The Legacies of Bindy Johal: The Contemporary Folk Devil or Sympathetic Hero
Religions, 2020 A folk devil has the ability to elicit a community’s fear over crime. Notorious late gangster, Bindy Johal, occupies this position as his legacy stirs the social anxieties over gang violence by some in the Punjabi-Sikh community in Western Canada.
Manjit Pabla
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Dimensions of Gang Issues at the National and International Level
European Review Of Applied Sociology, 2016 The main objective of this paper is to define the main dimensions of gang, its structure, mutual connections and influence on the contemporary society at national and international level.
Svatošová Veronika, Smolík Josef
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South African Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2018 Introduction: Many young men in South Africa belong to gangs which has negative consequences for individuals and society. Disengaging from a gang is difficult as it requires transformation; however, little is known about transformation in previously ...
Lisa Wegner +4 more
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Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2020 Despite the end of the civil war and the democratic transition, El Salvador remains one of the most violent countries in the world. Post-war Salvadoran governments have struggled to implement security policies that emphasize repression and heavy-handed ...
Viviana García Pinzón +1 more
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Predictors and Consequences of Gang Membership: Comparing Gang Members, Gang Leaders, and Non–Gang‐Affiliated Adjudicated Youth [PDF]
Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2014 This 7‐year study of 1,170 male adjudicated youth examined how self‐esteem, psychopathy, and psychosocial maturity relate to gang status (low‐level member, leader, and non‐gang member). Low temperance, perspective, and responsibility predicted being a low‐level gang member, whereas only lower temperance predicted being a gang leader.
Dmitrieva, Julia +4 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We reconstituted Synechocystis glycogen synthesis in vitro from purified enzymes and showed that two GlgA isoenzymes produce glycogen with different architectures: GlgA1 yields denser, highly branched glycogen, whereas GlgA2 synthesizes longer, less‐branched chains.
Kenric Lee +3 more
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Gangs, diabolatry and witchcraft: towards a contemporary typology of occult-gangs
Cogent Social SciencesThe Free State province is identified as having the highest occurrence of gangs that incorporate devil-worshipping and witchcraft into their practices.
Ashwill Ramon Phillips
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Beyond Gang Truces and Mano Dura Policies: Towards Substitutive Security Governance in Latin America
Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2016 With responses to urban violence receiving increasing academic attention, the literature on anti-gang efforts in Latin America has focused mainly on coercive 'mano dura' policies and cooperative gang truces.
Moritz Schuberth
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Glass Half Full? The Peril and Potential of Highly Organized Violence
Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2020 Throughout the twenty-first century, El Salvador has been immersed in a crisis of armed violence, largely explained by an exceptionally high degree of organization of armed violence by three gangs, the police, and the armed forces.
Adrian Bergmann
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