Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California by Vigil, James Diego
Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California by Vigil, James Diego

Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California

Within the Mexican American barrios of Los Angeles, gang activity, including crime and violent acts, has grown...
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Author: James Diego Vigil
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Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California by Vigil, James Diego

Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California

$82.30
Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California by Vigil, James Diego

Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California

$82.30
Author: James Diego Vigil
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Within the Mexican American barrios of Los Angeles, gang activity, including crime and violent acts, has grown and flourished. In the past, community leaders and law enforcement officials have approached the problem, not as something that needs to be understood, but only as something to be gotten rid of. Rejecting that approach, James D. Vigil asserts that only by understanding the complex factors that give birth and persistence to gangs can gang violence be ended.Drawing on many years of experience in the barrios as a youth worker, high school teacher, and researcher, Vigil identifies the elements from which gangs spring: isolation from the dominant culture, poverty, family stress and crowded households, peer pressure, and the adolescent struggle for self-identity. Using interviews with actual gang members, he reveals how the gang often functions as parent, school, and law enforcement in the absence of other role models in the gang members' lives. And he accounts for the longevity of gangs, sometimes over decades, by showing how they offer barrio youth a sense of identity and belonging nowhere else available.

Author: James Diego Vigil
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 10/01/1988
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.92h x 5.99w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780292711198

About the Author
Vigil, James Diego: - James Diego Vigil is Professor of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine.

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