- Densley, James A. “How Gangs Work – Springer.” How Gangs Work, Assistant Professor, Metropolitan State University, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057/9781137271518.pdf.
This document mainly explains the evolution of gangs throughout time and the most important factors that a gang contains to make it gain control, the easy way to get money, and how they are now formed of young people who live a reckless way of life.
- Rodgers, Dennis. “Latin America and Caribbean Region Sustainable Development Working Paper.” Youth Gangs and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Literature Survey, LCR Sustainable Development Working Paper, Aug. 1999, https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=.
This document describes how gangs in Latin America work and explains the effects of gangs country by country. It connects the gangs to their development in the United States as gang members immigrate and continue their way of life here.
- Blevins, Terra, et al. “Automatically Processing Tweets from Gang-Involved Youth: Towards Detecting Loss and Aggression.” Smith ScholarWorks, 1 Jan. 2016, https://scholarworks.smith.edu/csc_facpubs/166/.
This document describes how gang members use social media as a way to communicate with each other and plan attacks on other rival gang members that can any type of serious criminal activities.
- Hua, Vinh. “Law Enforcement’s Growing Use of Social Media to Target Gang Activity.” FORDHAM URBAN LAW JOURNAL, 11 Nov. 2015, https://news.law.fordham.edu/fulj/2015/11/11/law-enforcements-growing-use-of-social-media-to-target-gang-activity/.
This document describes how law enforcement is using social media to be able to track down gang members and get them under custody before they can commit any type of crime.
- Guilfoyle , Jaclynn J. “Gang Prevention Programs in Greater Los Angeles.” USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, https://priceschool.usc.edu/students/gang-prevention-programs-in-greater-los-angeles/.
This document focuses on a gang prevention program made in Los Angeles for the youth and shows the steps that can be taken to help people who need help avoiding gang activities or any type of delinquency at a young age.
