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Violence and Street Gangs
Lauger, T. R., & Densley, J. A. (2018). Broadcasting badness: Violence, identity, and performance in the online gang rap scene. Justice Quarterly, 35(5), 816-841. The article focuses on studying internet use in street gangs with emphasis on the rap music industry. Chicago can be considered the home of rap because it harbors the origin of many rap musicians. The central thematic concern addressed in these songs is based on violence and street gangs, making the article relevant in our analysis of the violence and street gangs in Chicago.
Roberto, E., Braga, A. A., & Papachristos, A. V. (2018). Closer to guns: the role of street gangs in facilitating access to illegal firearms. Journal of urban health, 95(3), 372-382. Guns play a very crucial role in street gangs and enhancing violence. The question of how offenders access these guns is a point of concern. Therefore, this article takes an in-depth analysis of how offenders access guns or firearms used in committing various atrocities. The study focuses on Chicago and its contribution to firearms’ easy accessibility to different crimes and criminal groups. The study integrates statistical data accessed from the arrest databases in Chicago.
Irwin-Rogers, K., Densley, J., & Pinkney, C. (2018). Gang violence and social media. The article e focuses on the interdependence between increased violence and street gang activities, and social media. Social media platforms have often been used as criminal operations platforms, and this is no different when it comes to the enhanced crime in Chicago streets with the immense street gangs. Therefore, this article focuses on social media contributions to the increased gang activities across Chicago, making it relevant in our topic’s analysis.
Braga, A. A., Weisburd, D., & Turchan, B. (2018). Focused deterrence strategies and crime control: An updated systematic review and meta‐analysis of the empirical evidence. Criminology & Public Policy, 17(1), 205-250. With the increased criminal activities, especially gang-related crimes that have significantly increased across Chicago, the need to establish strategies to minimize crime has arisen. Therefore, this article focuses on establishing strategies and plans for decreasing gang-related criminal activities in the city. The study involves a systematic review of conventions and protocols of Campbell collaboration.
Anderson, E. (2019). Code of the Street. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, 1-3. The article’s focal point is the environment’s contributions to enhanced violence and street gangs amongst the vast black community. According to the author of this article, the greatest challenge is the poverty in the vast black community, which has subjected many gang members to extreme aggression and interpersonal violence. Code of the street is the focal point of this article. It gives an in-depth analysis of crime, especially in the interior of Chicago city, where the vast black community is involved in gang-related crimes.
Stuart, F., Riley, A., & Pourreza, H. (2020). A human-machine partnered approach for identifying social media signals of elevated traumatic grief in Chicago gang territories. PLoS One, 15(7), e0236625. Violence and gang-related crimes predispose innocent people to the arm ways, leading to the death and tremendous injury of many. The killing is traumatic for the families and friends of the victims. Therefore, this article focuses on enhancing trauma-informed operations in marginalized communities, especially the Chicago south-side.