Youth Gangs in Rural America
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چکیده
The prevailing image of youth gangs— with their symbols, colors, and territorial graffiti—is that they are found in the poorest neighborhoods of America’s large cities. Certainly, they are. In recent years, however, such gangs also have been popping up in outlying rural areas, far away from urban decay. A number of assumptions about these rural gangs are popular in the criminal justice research literature. For example, researchers commonly believe that once a youth gang establishes itself in an area, it will be around for quite some time.
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