Youth Street Gangs
Gangs have been heavily pathologized in the last several decades. In comparison to the pioneering Chicago School''s work on gangs in the 1920s we have moved away from a humanistic appraisal of and sensitivity toward the phenomenon and have allowed the gang to become a highly plastic folk devil outside of history. This pathologization of the gang has particularly negative consequences for democracy...
Gangs have been heavily pathologized in the last several decades. In comparison to the pioneering Chicago School''s work on gangs in the 1920s we have moved away from a humanistic appraisal of and sensitivity toward the phenomenon and have allowed the gang to become a highly plastic folk devil outside of history. This pathologization of the gang has particularly negative consequences for democracy...
