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Pathways to Gang Involvement and Drug Distribution

Social, Environmental, and Psychological Factors

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Authors:
  1. Inger-Lise Lien

    1. NKVTS No. 48, Oslo, Norway

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  • Provides a holistic system analysis to examine drug distribution criminal careers of gang members and non-gang members

  • Demonstrates the social and environmental factors leading to gang entry and retention

  • Examines the levels and effects of traumatic stress and depression in gang members

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Research in Prison

    • Inger-Lise Lien
    Pages 1-8

  3. Prison as Context

    • Inger-Lise Lien
    Pages 9-23

  4. The Way In

    • Inger-Lise Lien
    Pages 25-43

  5. Narcotics Sales as a System

    • Inger-Lise Lien
    Pages 45-60

  6. Supporting Activities and Lifestyle

    • Inger-Lise Lien
    Pages 61-78

  7. Violence Within the Distribution System

    • Inger-Lise Lien
    Pages 79-86

  8. Violence and Emotions

    • Inger-Lise Lien
    Pages 87-92

  9. Traumatic Stress

    • Inger-Lise Lien
    Pages 93-99

  10. Personality Disorders

    • Inger-Lise Lien
    Pages 101-103

  11. System maintenance and breakdown

    • Inger-Lise Lien
    Pages 105-113

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 115-133
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About this book

​​This book uses a multi-methods study of incarcerated youths to examine the pathways to gang involvement, the drug distribution system and hierarchy within gangs, levels of traumatic stress and depression among gang-involved youths, and other mechanisms of control and retention within the system of gangs. Based on a study of young inmates in Norway, with international backgrounds including Africa, Pakistan, Middle East and Western Europe, the findings explained in this book are broadly applicable. It aims to create a picture of the entire system of gang membership, while revealing a research framework that could be applied to other studies. Gang members were found in high levels to be suffering from depression and traumatic stress, and were often heavily indebted (financially and otherwise) to persons in the outside world. Owing money, violence and other threats, all make it difficult to leave the system, despite the pains they suffer within it. In order understand young peoples’ life within the system, and its hold on them, and in order to reduce its continuation and growth, this important analysis helps researchers and policy makers, particularly those interested in juvenile justice, youth gangs, and drug trafficking understand its logic and identify its weak points and possible ways out.​ 

Authors and Affiliations

  • NKVTS No. 48, Oslo, Norway

    Inger-Lise Lien

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pathways to Gang Involvement and Drug Distribution

  • Book Subtitle: Social, Environmental, and Psychological Factors

  • Authors: Inger-Lise Lien

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01664-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01663-4Published: 15 October 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34796-7Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01664-1Published: 25 September 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 133

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general

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