Youth in Crisis?
Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth ''gangs''. Paradoxically, youth researchers have conventionally been reluctant to even use the term ''gang'' but, more recently, such reluctance has receded. Indeed, it is increasingly claimed that – in particular urban ''territories'' – youth gangs are commonplace, some young people are deeply immersed in violence and t...
Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth ''gangs''. Paradoxically, youth researchers have conventionally been reluctant to even use the term ''gang'' but, more recently, such reluctance has receded. Indeed, it is increasingly claimed that – in particular urban ''territories'' – youth gangs are commonplace, some young people are deeply immersed in violence and t...