Gangs of the El Paso-Juarez Borderland
«�Tapia provides a sorely needed supplement to our knowledge of gangs in the Southwest, giving us a detailed history of gang development, cartel and street-gang relations, and the evolution of street�prison gang hybrids in the El Paso, Las Cruces, and Ju�rez regions.��Christian Bolden, contributor to The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology �Very rarely do criminologists get to read an authoritative book by an authoritative scholar on a topic with great interest but little scholarly attention. Tapia�s book is a landmark achievement on the gangs of the El Paso�Ju�rez region in a one-hundred-year time period. You will not be able to put this book down.��Alex R. Piquero, coeditor of Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior: Resent Research and Future Challenges»
This thought-provoking book examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Known as the El Paso-Juarez borderland region, the area contains more than three million people spanning 130 miles from east to west. Les mer
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Tapia looks extensively at the role of history and geography on criminal subculture formation in the binational urban Setting of El Paso-Juarez, demonstrating the region's unique context for criminogenic processes. He provides a poignant case study of Homeland Security and the apparent lack of drug war spillover in communities on the US-Mexico border.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of New Mexico Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780826361097
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«�Tapia provides a sorely needed supplement to our knowledge of gangs in the Southwest, giving us a detailed history of gang development, cartel and street-gang relations, and the evolution of street�prison gang hybrids in the El Paso, Las Cruces, and Ju�rez regions.��Christian Bolden, contributor to The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology �Very rarely do criminologists get to read an authoritative book by an authoritative scholar on a topic with great interest but little scholarly attention. Tapia�s book is a landmark achievement on the gangs of the El Paso�Ju�rez region in a one-hundred-year time period. You will not be able to put this book down.��Alex R. Piquero, coeditor of Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior: Resent Research and Future Challenges»