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Becoming the Baddest: Masculine Trajectories of Gang Violence in Medellín
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 ...
Entender a las pandillas de América Latina: una revisión de la literaturaUnderstanding Gangs in Contemporary Latin AmericaEntendendo às Quadrilhas na América Latina: Uma revisão da literatura
(Universidad del Rosario, 2016)
This article provides an overview of the current knowledge base about Latin American gangs drawing principally on studies based on primary empirical research. We begin by focusing on the two most developed bodies of work, ...