Authors
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Publication date
1997/7
Journal
American Journal of Sociology
Volume
103
Issue
1
Pages
82-111
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Description
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.
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Scholar articles
SA Venkatesh - American journal of sociology, 1997