This book chapter seeks to understand the current proliferation of gang violence associated with illicit arms trafficking and predominantly urban street gangs hired by economic and political entrepreneurs, using Warnecke-Berger's concept of vertical-horizontal violence. Vertical violence is a form of ...
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Born in Cuba and raised in the United States, Professor Ferrer is also the author ofInsurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898(University of North Carolina Press, 1999) andFreedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution(Cambridge University Press, 2014). Professor Fe...
The culture of these gangs will be familiar to Californians as their iconography was created in the barrios of Los Angeles. But today the cholo homies of old have gone hardcore. The problem has gotten so bad that many Mexican and Central American leaders have begun to label gang related viole...
Social and political turmoil in Haiti is disrupting the lives of its 11 million citizens. The prime minister resigned after violent gangs seized power and chaos overtook both the streets and the government. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians have lost their homes and are going hungry, and thousands...
About five years after incarceration, Williams underwent a religious conversion and, as a result, wrote many books and created programs to promote peace and to fight gangs and gang violence. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Peace Prize and four times for the Nobel Literature Prize. ...
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