Civil Banishment of Gang Members: Circumventing Criminal Due Process Requirements?

Mentoring Siblings of Gang Members: A Template for Reaching Families of Gang Members?

Mentoring has become a popular model of intervention to reduce the risk of offending, and has been proposed as an effective tool to tackle the risk of gang membership. This paper reviews the existing literature on mentoring and reports on a qualitative evaluation of a mentoring programme targeted at young people ‘at risk’ of gang membership in an English city. The study highlights important iss...

Family Relationships of City Gang Members

Family and Gang as Agents of Socialization The family, conceived primarily as a child-rearing agency, and the gang, defined in some detail in the last chapter, were both prevalent forms of associational units in Midcity. It is important to repeat at this point that the term “family” as used in the present work refers to that kinship-based associational unit which bears primary responsibility fo...

Signals Revealing Street Gang Members on Twitter

We study the problem of automatically finding gang member profiles on Twitter. We outline a process to curate one of the largest sets of verifiable gang member profiles that has ever been studied. A review of these profiles establishes differences in the language, images, YouTube links, and emoji features gang members use compared to the rest of the Twitter population. We generate word embeddin...

Civil commitment--due process and the standard of proof.

Law Enforcement; a Function of Criminal Liability or Civil Liability

Despite the fact that in investigations and legal writings enough consideration has been paid to the founding principles and rules governing civil and criminal liability as well as damages of crime, the legal or disciplinary responsibility accompanying these two types of legal responsibilities has not been taken seriously into account and the people involved it - in particular, the authorities ...