Gang delinquency and delinquent subcultures.
Edited by James F. Short, Jr.
- New York Harper & Row [1968]
- viii, 328 p. 21 cm.
- Readers in social problems .
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 297-322).
The cherubs are rumbling, by W. Bernstein.--Aggression in a boys' street-corner group, by W. B. Miller, H. Geertz, and H. S. G. Cutter.--Juvenile delinquency: a group tradition, by C. Shaw.--Leadership and the power situation, by H. A. Bloch and A. Niederhoffer.--Drug addiction among young persons in Chicago, by S. Kobrin and H. Finestone.--Lower class culture as a generating milieu of gang delinquency, by W. B. Miller.--Illegitimate means, anomie, and deviant behavior, by R. A. Cloward.--Criteria of status among street groups, by S. Kobrin, J. Puntil, and E. Peluso.--Significant adults, caretakers, and structures of opportunity; an exploratory study, by R. J. Rivera and J. J. Short, Jr.--Why gangs fight, by J. J. Short, Jr. and F. L. Strodtbeck.--Groups, gangs, and cohesiveness, by M. W. Klein and L. Y. Crawford.--Aleatory risks versus short-run hedonism in explanation of gang action, by F. L. Strodtbeck and J. F. Short, Jr.