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Name: Encyclopedia of gangs
Author: David Brotherton

📘 Encyclopedia of gangs by David Brotherton

Examines gangs throughout the United States in over eighty entries covering topics such as history, the wide range of communities where gangs form, and their increasingly complex lifestyle.

First publish date: 2007

Authors: David Brotherton

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