| 1 | Why study gangs? : an intellectual journey | 1 |
| 2 | Are "gang" studies dangerous? : youth violence, local context, and the problem of reification | 15 |
| 3 | Studying youth gangs : the importance of context | 37 |
| 4 | The gang facilitation effect and neighborhood risk : do gangs have a stronger influence on delinquency in disadvantaged areas? | 47 |
| 5 | Neighborhood effects on street gang behavior | 63 |
| 6 | Youth gang social dynamics and social network analysis : applying degree centrality measures to assess the nature of gang boundaries | 85 |
| 7 | Social network analysis and gang research : theory and methods | 99 |
| 8 | A public health model for studying youth gangs | 117 |
| 9 | The value of comparisons in street gang research | 129 |
| 10 | Hate groups or street gangs? : the emergence of racist skinheads | 145 |
| 11 | Youth gang research in Australia | 161 |
| 12 | The global impact of gangs | 181 |
| 13 | Gang membership and community corrections populations : characteristics and recidivism rates relative to other offenders | 193 |
| 14 | The comprehensive, community-wide gang program model : success and failure | 203 |
| 15 | Moving gang research forward | 225 |