Studies in Gangs and Cartels

ISBN-13: 9780415638050 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 232 str.

Robert J. Bunker; John P. Sullivan

Opis

Concerns over the changing nature of gangs and cartels and their relationships to states in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has resulted in the emergence of a scholarly body of work focused on their national security threat potentials. This body of work represents an alternative to traditional gang and organised crime research.

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Preface: Criminology vs. National Security Perspectives in Gang and Cartel Analysis Robert J. Bunker  1. Introduction: Third Generation Gangs and Third Phase Cartels John P. Sullivan  SECTION I SOURCE DOCUMENTS  2. The Disaster Within Us: Urban Conflict and Street Gang Violence in Los Angeles  John P. Sullivan and Martin E. Silverstein  3. Street Gangs—Future Paramilitary Groups?  Robert J. Bunker  4. Epochal Change: War Over Social and Political Organization  Robert J. Bunker  5. Third Generation Street Gangs: Turf, Cartels and Netwarriors John P. Sullivan  6. Cartel Evolution: Potentials and Consequences  Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan  SECTION II MATURING PERSPECTIVES  7. Urban Gangs Evolving As Criminal Netwar Actors  John P. Sullivan  8. Drug Cartels, Street Gangs, and Warlords  John P. Sullivan and Robert J. Bunker  9. Terrorism, Crime and Private Armies  John P. Sullivan  10. Maras Morphing: Revisiting Third Generation Gangs  John P. Sullivan  11. Iraq & the Americas: 3 GEN Gangs Lessons and Prospects  Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan  12. Child Soldiers: Despair, Barbarization, and Conflict  John P. Sullivan  13. Gang, Cartel and State Interactions: An Epochal Warfare Analysis  Robert J. Bunker  14. Postscript: Violent Non-State Actors, Gangs and Cartels  John P. Sullivan and Robert J. Bunker  Appendix 1: Insurgency and Crime  Appendix 2: Gang and Cartel Maps  Appendix 3: Gang and Cartel Maps (II), to be found on www.

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Dr. Robert J. Bunker is Distinguished Visiting Professor and Minerva Chair at the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College. He is also Adjunct Faculty, School of Politics and Economics (SPE), Claremont Graduate University. John P. Sullivan is a career police officer. He is also a senior fellow, Stephenson Disaster Management Institute, Louisiana State University and adjunct researcher, Scientific Vortex Foundation, Bogotá Colombia.