Eurogang Project

Excited to share our new article, "Keeping it Real: A Signaling Theory Perspective on Authentic Claims of Gang Membership Made on Social Media," now out in Theoretical Criminology. Co-authored with James Densley and @Lindseyinsco1 Inbox me for a copy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

For nearly a decade James Densley and I have been weighing the evidence on police gang databases. We share our thoughts in this new opinion editorial in @GOVERNING governing.com/management-and…

What's a gang? In a new vignette study, JDensley @dpyrooz & @jsanchez318 asked a US YouGov sample, describing a teen group and varying its features. They find that group names, violent activity, and structure all shape what the public considers a gang. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

How large are the demographic disparities in law enforcement gang databases? James Densley and I provide new evidence from 222 law enforcement agencies in California academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-ar…

Excited the book is finally here, I learned so much while working on it. Thanks to all the contributors for their diverse takes on current issues with street gangs. Fun fact Henry was born the week we submitted the proposal. Now here they are together almost 3.5 years later!

The latest volume of the Annual Review of Criminology is online. View the table of contents arevie.ws/3ScfCk8 #OpenAccess Sign up for future volume announcements direct to your inbox arevie.ws/twitsign

Are transnational gangs the result of migration? Yes.. & No! @DrJonathanRosen and I advance some answers here 👇 Transnational Gangs? Understanding Migration and Gangs academic.oup.com/edited-volume/… Many thanks to @dpyrooz, @JohnLeverso & James Densley for inviting us to contribute.

The introductory chapter is available on research gate researchgate.net/publication/37…

There are so many great chapters in this volume. Here's the table of contents

The Oxford Handbook of Gangs & Society is now published Individual chapters can also be accessed and downloaded on the OUP website: academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

💔 Despite a 95% surge in conflict deaths from 2021 to 2022, fuelled by escalating wars in Ukraine and Ethiopia, the global burden of homicide in 2022 was double that of conflict deaths More in our latest report: unodc.org/unodc/data-and…

When starting the #LoneStarProject back in 2014, this was the question I always wanted to examine: What happens to the gang ties of people when they leave prison and return to the community? Fast forward 10 years and I finally have an article to share tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Next up for our #MHRGROW cohort is: @jaimee_mallion who is a forensic psychologist and psychology lecturer @LSBU. Jaimee focuses on the role of mental health in gang membership and is a member of the @Euro_Gang network. orcid.org/0000-0002-7964…

Coming soon

Very excited to share our forthcoming article in the Annual Review of Criminology. We hope this piece appeals to everyone from veteran to newcomer contributors to the literature on gangs, as well as those with even passing interest in the topic. annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

3 years in the making! Super excited to see this coming out soon!

Save the date for the 22nd @Euro_Gang workshop. If you conduct cross-national, comparative, and/or multi-method research on gangs, mark down these dates and keep an eye out for the call for papers. If you have questions, reach out to me or @jsanchez318. Please share widely.

Enjoying the 21st meeting of the @Euro_Gang program of research in Les Avellanes, Spain And kudos to @jsanchez318 for delivering a top notch presentation on our evaluation of our evaluation of a multidisciplinary team and street outreach intervention in Denver

We’re kicking off #eurogang 21 in Les Avellanes, Catalonia, Spain

New article in @nws_journal w/ @GravelJ, @Joris_Mulder, Roger Leenders, @CarterButts, @jeffbrantingham, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, & @Tanaro1 examining the contagion of gang violence w/ Relational Event Models @CJatUA @temple_cj @Social_Ecology @TilburgU doi.org/10.1017/nws.20…