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The History of Street Gangs in the United States: Their Origins and Transformations

by James C. Howell

Lexington. 2015. 165p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781498511322. $80; ebk. ISBN 9781498511339.

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Howell, a senior associate at the National Gang Center, covers the emergence and persistence of gangs from the 1880s to the present. Street, prison, and transnational gangs are explored as are programs proven to have a reductive impact.

Reviewed by Joan Pedzich , Jul 01, 2016

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