Gangs

Forthcoming

Grekul, Jana. Forthcoming. “Understanding Gang Involvement and Desistance: A Hope Framework” in The Oxford Compendium of Hope, Eds. Anthony Scioli and Steven van den Heuvel. 

2024

Foster, S., & Grekul, J. (2024). "This might be cliché,  but it was a sense of family": Gang involvement among Indigenous young adults and their search for attachment, community, and hope. Canadian Review of Sociology, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.12469

Urbanik, M. Bucerius, S. M. (2024). Women in gang research. In David C. Pyrooz, James A. Densley, & John Leverso (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society (pp. 287–311). Oxford Academic. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197618158.013.28

2020

Berardi, L., & Bucerius, S.M. (2020). Organizational turning points: The transformation of the almighty Latin king and queen nation in New York City. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 45(2), 143-168. https://doi.org/10.29173/cjs29643

Bucerius, S.M., Jones, D., & Haggerty, K.D. (2020). Indigenous gangs in Western Canada. In D. Brotherton (Eds.), Critical gang studies. London: Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429462443-24/indigenous-gangs-western-canada-sandra-bucerius-daniel-jones-kevin-haggerty

Urbanik, M., Roks R, Storrod M, & Densley, J. (2020). Emerging issues in gang ethnography: The challenges and opportunities of eurogang research in a digital age. In C. Melde &F.  Weerman (Eds.), Gangs in the era of internet and social media. Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-47214-6_2

Urbanik, M. (2020). “Gangbangers are gangbangers, hustlers are hustlers”: The rap game, social media, and gang violence in Toronto. In D. Brotherton, D. & R. Gude (Eds.), International handbook of critical gang studies. Routledge. 34 pp. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429462443-47/gangbangers-gangbangers-hustlers-hustlers-marta-marika-urbanik

Urbanik, M., Roks, R.A. (2020). Gangstalife: Fusing urban ethnography with netnography in gang studies. Qualitative Sociology 43, 213–233. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11133-020-09445-0

2018

Urbanik, M. (2018). Drawing boundaries or drawing weapons? Neighborhood master status as suppressor of gang violence. Qualitative Sociology, 41, 497–519. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11133-018-9401-3

Urbanik, M., Haggerty, K.D. (2018). ‘#It’s dangerous’: The online world of drug dealers, rappers and the street code. The British Journal of Criminology, 58(6), 1343–1360. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azx083