Describing and defining youth gangs

Abstract

In the past few years, academics, practitioners and policy‐makers have wrestled with the problem of defining youth gangs and differentiating them from other youth groupings. This is partly because different contributors to the debate have been interested in gangs for different reasons, but also because the form that gangs take is often determined by local factors, which make producing a single generic definition difficult, if not impossible.

Citation

Pitts, J. (2008), "Describing and defining youth gangs", Safer Communities, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 26-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/17578043200800006