Valasik, Matthew <br/><br/>
Research on Gang-Related Violence in the 21st Century 

 - Basel, Switzerland  MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute  2021 
 - 1 electronic resource (188 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> Conflict, including the threat or fear of potential violence, or being witness to or a victim of physical violence, constantly surrounds gangs and their communities and is the principal driver sustaining gang life. This Special Issue examines the diverse nature of gang-related violence with the goal of better understanding the growing complexities of gang violence over the last two decades to better inform public policy solutions. The contributions included in this Special Issue highlight the complex nature of gang-related violence in the 21st Century. As much as policy makers, the media, and even scholars like to simplify gang-related violence, all of the studies included in this Special Issue highlight the nuance and variation that exists. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>books978-3-0365-1533-5 9783036515342 9783036515335 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.3390/books978-3-0365-1533-5  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Law<br/>Drugs trade / drug trafficking
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>street gangs public health Good Lives Model intervention prevention gang violence incident reports police data drug markets gangs opioids overdose spatial concentration generalized cross-entropy street gang violence civil gang injunctions conflict network social network analysis social networks crisis organized crime homicide retaliation gang homicide comparative research ethnography gang violence desistance network composition criminal behavior homicide types disaggregation latent class analysis shootings social media focused deterrence n/a