Mr. Hauff is principal, Christner Inc., St. Louis. I n urban areas across the country, the story is familiar: A once-attractive, safe, well-maintained neighborhood gradually deteriorates and becomes an area of decay, crime, and fear. Crack houses replace family homes, and streets that once were the source of community enjoyment and childhood play now belong to drug dealers, prostitutes, and gangs.

This research extends the homicide literature by using latent class analysis methods to examine neighborhood structural and demographic characteristics of different categories homicides in Hollenbeck Community Policing Area Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The area itself is a 15 square-mile region with approximately 187,000 residents, majority whom are Latino (84 percent). also has protra...

Abstract Through an analysis of interviews with Southern California attorneys, supplemented by archival materials, this article contributes to the literature on gangs, critical criminology, and Gothic tropes examining how ambiguous nature gang profiling allows state actors target racialized others in various legal administrative venues little evidence few procedural protections. I conceptualize...

Abstract Gangs are often associated with violence and chaos, but they can also be institutional vectors for the imposition of particular forms social order, based on their members’ status as locally hegemonic “violence experts”. This “gang governance” is exclusive volatile, however, its underlying logic easily change. Instances latter frequently connected to generational turnovers within gangs....

The present article examines whether derivational morphology shows evidence of an associative memory structure. A distributional analysis of stems of attested derivational forms revealed evidence of clustering around phonological properties (gangs) for all nonneutral affixes but only a few neutral affixes. Subjects' acceptability ratings for novel complex words revealed sensitivity to the gang ...