TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Describing and defining youth gangs
JO  - Community safety journal
A1  - Pitts, John
SP  - 26
EP  - 32
VL  - 7
IS  - 1
N2  - In the past few years, academics, practitioners and policy-makers have wrestled with the problem of defining youth gangs and differentiating them from other youth groupings. This is partly because different contributors to the debate have been interested in gangs for different reasons, but also because the form that gangs take is often determined by local factors, which make producing a single generic definition difficult, if not impossible.<p /> 
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SN  - 1477-5883
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17578043200800006
ID  - ref1
ER  -