Jennifer M. Hazen is a political scientist who has worked with International Crisis Group, the United Nations, the Small Arms Survey, and BAE Systems in support of U.S. Africa Command.Dennis Rodgers is professor of urban social and political research in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Sudhir Venkatesh is Williams B. Ransford Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and the author of, among several other books, Gang Leader for a Day.

"This volume must be appreciated not simply for the breadth of cases that it features but also for the collective work of its authors in refashioning a century of theory that relegated the gang to oddball status." -Sudhir Venkatesh, from the Afterword

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gangs in a Global Comparative PerspectiveDennis Rodgers and Jennifer M. HazenPart I. Gang Formation and Transformation1. Intimate Connections: Gangs and the Political Economy of Urbanization in South AfricaSteffen Jensen2. Cholo! The Migratory Origins of Chicano Gangs in Los AngelesJames Diego Vigil3. Capitalizing on Change: Gangs, Ideology, and the Transition to a Liberal Economy in the Russian FederationAlexander Salagaev and Rustem Safin4. Of Marginality and “Little Emperors”: The Changing Reality of Chinese Youth GangsLening Zhang5. From Black Jackets to Zulus: Social Imagination, Myth, and Reality Concerning French GangsMarwan Mohammed6. Maras and the Politics of Violence in El SalvadorJosÉ Miguel CruzPart II. Problematizing Gangs7. Youth Gangs and Otherwise in IndonesiaLoren Ryter8. “Playing the Game”: Gang/Militia Logics in War-Torn Sierra LeoneMats Utas9. “For Your Safety”: Child Vigilante Squads and Neo-Gangsterism in Urban IndiaAtreyee Sen10. “We Are the True Blood of the Mau Mau”: The Mungiki Movement in KenyaJacob Rasmussen11. Gang Politics in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilEnrique Desmond Arias12. “Hecho en Mexico”: Gangs, Identities, and the Politics of Public SecurityGareth A. JonesAfterword: The Inevitable GangSudhir VenkateshContributorsIndex

Jennifer M. Hazen is a political scientist who has worked with International Crisis Group, the United Nations, the Small Arms Survey, and BAE Systems in support of U.S. Africa Command.Dennis Rodgers is professor of urban social and political research in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Sudhir Venkatesh is Williams B. Ransford Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and the author of, among several other books, Gang Leader for a Day.

"This volume must be appreciated not simply for the breadth of cases that it features but also for the collective work of its authors in refashioning a century of theory that relegated the gang to oddball status." -Sudhir Venkatesh, from the Afterword

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gangs in a Global Comparative PerspectiveDennis Rodgers and Jennifer M. HazenPart I. Gang Formation and Transformation1. Intimate Connections: Gangs and the Political Economy of Urbanization in South AfricaSteffen Jensen2. Cholo! The Migratory Origins of Chicano Gangs in Los AngelesJames Diego Vigil3. Capitalizing on Change: Gangs, Ideology, and the Transition to a Liberal Economy in the Russian FederationAlexander Salagaev and Rustem Safin4. Of Marginality and “Little Emperors”: The Changing Reality of Chinese Youth GangsLening Zhang5. From Black Jackets to Zulus: Social Imagination, Myth, and Reality Concerning French GangsMarwan Mohammed6. Maras and the Politics of Violence in El SalvadorJosÉ Miguel CruzPart II. Problematizing Gangs7. Youth Gangs and Otherwise in IndonesiaLoren Ryter8. “Playing the Game”: Gang/Militia Logics in War-Torn Sierra LeoneMats Utas9. “For Your Safety”: Child Vigilante Squads and Neo-Gangsterism in Urban IndiaAtreyee Sen10. “We Are the True Blood of the Mau Mau”: The Mungiki Movement in KenyaJacob Rasmussen11. Gang Politics in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilEnrique Desmond Arias12. “Hecho en Mexico”: Gangs, Identities, and the Politics of Public SecurityGareth A. JonesAfterword: The Inevitable GangSudhir VenkateshContributorsIndex

Jennifer M. Hazen is a political scientist who has worked with International Crisis Group, the United Nations, the Small Arms Survey, and BAE Systems in support of U.S. Africa Command.Dennis Rodgers is professor of urban social and political research in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Sudhir Venkatesh is Williams B. Ransford Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and the author of, among several other books, Gang Leader for a Day.

"This volume must be appreciated not simply for the breadth of cases that it features but also for the collective work of its authors in refashioning a century of theory that relegated the gang to oddball status." -Sudhir Venkatesh, from the Afterword

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gangs in a Global Comparative PerspectiveDennis Rodgers and Jennifer M. HazenPart I. Gang Formation and Transformation1. Intimate Connections: Gangs and the Political Economy of Urbanization in South AfricaSteffen Jensen2. Cholo! The Migratory Origins of Chicano Gangs in Los AngelesJames Diego Vigil3. Capitalizing on Change: Gangs, Ideology, and the Transition to a Liberal Economy in the Russian FederationAlexander Salagaev and Rustem Safin4. Of Marginality and “Little Emperors”: The Changing Reality of Chinese Youth GangsLening Zhang5. From Black Jackets to Zulus: Social Imagination, Myth, and Reality Concerning French GangsMarwan Mohammed6. Maras and the Politics of Violence in El SalvadorJosÉ Miguel CruzPart II. Problematizing Gangs7. Youth Gangs and Otherwise in IndonesiaLoren Ryter8. “Playing the Game”: Gang/Militia Logics in War-Torn Sierra LeoneMats Utas9. “For Your Safety”: Child Vigilante Squads and Neo-Gangsterism in Urban IndiaAtreyee Sen10. “We Are the True Blood of the Mau Mau”: The Mungiki Movement in KenyaJacob Rasmussen11. Gang Politics in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilEnrique Desmond Arias12. “Hecho en Mexico”: Gangs, Identities, and the Politics of Public SecurityGareth A. JonesAfterword: The Inevitable GangSudhir VenkateshContributorsIndex