For undergraduate-level courses in Special Topics in Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice, and Juvenile Delinquency.
This text challenges many of the claims made by law enforcement and the media regarding the nature and extent of the gang problem in the United States. Employing a social constructionist approach to the study of social problems, the authors detail how law enforcement has figured prominently in the creation and promotion of stereotypes—marketing the gang threat via the news media to protect and increase organizational resources and power. This text focuses on the events, organizations, and processes that surrounded the gang panic during the late 1980s and early 1990s, a period during which gangs expanded greatly on American cities.
- ISBN10 0130944580
- ISBN13 9780130944580
- Publish Date 8 July 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 July 2007
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Format Paperback
- Pages 340
- Language English