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Living on the edge: youth entry, career and exit in drug-selling gangs

Carvalho, Leandro S.; Soares, Rodrigo dos Reis (Elsevier Science Bv, 2016-01)

We use data from a unique survey of members of drug-trafficking gangs in favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to characterize drug-trafficking jobs and study the selection into gangs, analyzing what distinguishes ...

Gangs, maras and other outsiders: towards an Ethnography of Latin American GangsGangs, maras, pandillas y otros outsiders: hacia una etnografía de los gangs latinoamericanos

Collombon, Maya (Cultura y Representaciones Sociales, 2021)

Gang-nail: roof & floor truss systems for architects and engineers

Jureit, J. C. (Automated Building Components, 2018)

Becoming the Baddest: Masculine Trajectories of Gang Violence in Medellín

Baird, Adam

Drawing upon forty life-history interviews with gang members in Medellín, Colombia, this paper argues that many young men join gangs to emulate and reproduce 'successful' local male identities. The accumulation by the gang ...