TY - BOOK AU - Pyrooz,David AU - Densley,James A. AU - Leverso,John TI - The Oxford handbook of gangs and society T2 - Oxford handbooks online SN - 9780197618189 AV - HV6437 .O94 2024 U1 - 364.1066 23 PY - 2024/// CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Gangs KW - Gang members KW - True Crime KW - ukslc KW - Social services & welfare, criminology KW - thema N1 - Also issued in print: 2024; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 'The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society' is the premier reference book on gangs for practitioners, policymakers, students, and scholars. This carefully curated volume contains 43 chapters written by the leading experts in the field, who advance a central theme of 'looking back, moving forward' by providing state-of-the-art reviews of the literature they created, shaped, and (re)defined. This international, interdisciplinary collective of authors provides readers with a rare tour of the field in its entirety, expertly navigating thorny debates and the at-times contentious history of gang research, while simultaneously synthesizing flourishing areas of study that advance the field into the 21st century UR - https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197618158.001.0001 ER -