DOI: 10.18130/v3751k
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This Wrong Being Done to My People: Street Gangs, Historical Agency, and Crime Politics in Postwar America

Abstract: For over two hundred years, street gangs have existed in American cities, yet gang violence did not become a sustained national concern until after World War II.Beginning in 1945, the number of cities reporting gang violence expanded and the number of identified gang members grew exponentially. As a result, from the late 1950s through the early 1990s, gang violence became a sustained national crime issue.This dissertation uncovers how ideas about gangs changed during this period and who was responsible for the… Show more

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