TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - The Social Organization of Street Gang Activity in an Urban Ghetto
JO  - American journal of sociology
A1  - Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi
SP  - 82
EP  - 111
VL  - 103
IS  - 1
N2  - This essay draws on long-term ethnographic data to analyze the shifting relations between street gangs and their broader community. The essay focuses on one particular moment in the evolution of a ghetto-based street gang, namely its attempt to "corporatize" by accumulating revenues in underground economies, in order to demonstrate that neither the structure nor the practices of the street gang can be understood apart from the social organizational context of the larger community it inhabits.<p />
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SN  - 0002-9602
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/231172
ID  - ref1
ER  -