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Direct linkValdez, Avelardo; Sifaneck, Stephen J. – Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2004
This article discerns the role that Mexican American gang members play in drug markets, and the relationship between gang members' drug use and drug selling in South Texas. A four-part typology based on the two dimensions of gang type and gang member emerged from this qualitative analysis of 160 male gang members: Homeboys, Hustlers, Slangers, and…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Juvenile Gangs, Power Structure, Drug Use
