Gangs as Alternative Transitional Structures: Adaptations to Racial and Social Marginality in Los Angeles and London.

Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor

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Publication Date: 2000

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Gangs as Alternative Transitional Structures: Adaptations to Racial and Social Marginality in Los Angeles and London.

Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor

Journal of Multicultural Social Work, v8 n1-2 p71-99 2000

Focus groups and interviews with African American youth in Los Angeles and Afro-Caribbean youth in London found gangs to be one of their five top issues; identified social, educational, and employment factors fostering gang formation; and identified psychological, social, and economic functions of gangs for their members. (Contains 95 references.) (SV)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Foreign Countries, Juvenile Gangs, Psychological Needs, Social Support Groups, Urban Youth, Violence, Young Adults, Youth Problems

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: California (Los Angeles); United Kingdom (London)

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