商品簡介
Sociologists, criminologists, and other scholars discuss contemporary issues relating to research on youth gangs. Short (emeritus, Washington State U.) opens the volume with an account of his experiences working in the Youth Studies Program at the U. of Chicago. The remaining 14 contributions address such topics as the use of social network analysis in gang research, and the identification of political and organizational barriers to gang prevention programs. Several of the essays were previously published in the May 2005 issue of the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
James F. Short, Jr., is professor emeritus of sociology at Washington State University. Lorine A. Hughes is assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
