Introduction to Special Issue on Youth Groups and Gangs in the African Context
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Hills, A. 2007. “Police Commissioners, Presidents and the Governance of Security.” Journal of African Studies 45 (3): 409–423.
Kerr, K. 2020. “Assessing Gang Risks in Post-war Environments: The Case of Colombia.” Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 9 (1): 1–21.
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Rodgers, D., and R. Muggah. 2009. “Gangs as Non-state Armed Groups: The Central American Case.” Contemporary Security Policy 30 (2): 301–317.
Schuberth, M. 2015. “The Challenge of Community-based Armed Groups: Towards a Conceptualization of Militias, Gangs and Vigilantes.” Contemporary Security Policy 36 (2): 296–320.
Sinclair, G., and C. Williams. 2007. “Home and Away: The Cross-fertilization between ‘Colonial’ and British Policing, 1921–1985.” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 35 (2): 221–238.
Van Stapele, Naomi. 2021. “Gangs in Kenya: Work, Manhood and Security.” In Routledge International Handbook of Critical Gang Studies, edited by David C. Brotherton and Rafael Jose Gude. London/New York: Routledge, 489–502.
Waller, R. 2010. “Towards Contextualisation of Policing in Colonial Kenya.” Journal of East African Studies 493: 525–541.
Watts, M. 2007. “Petro-Insurgency or Criminal Syndicate? Conflict and Violence in the Niger Delta.” In Conflict and Security in Africa, edited by R. Abrahamsen. Oxford: James Currey.
Deflem, M. 1994. “Law Enforcement in British Colonial Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Imperialist Policing in Nyasaland, the Gold Coast and Kenya.” Police Studies 17 (1): 45–68.
Hagedorn, J. 2005. “The Global Impact of Gangs.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 21 (20): 153–169.
Hazlehurst, Kayleen, and Cameron Hazlehurst (Eds). 1998. Gangs and Youth Subcultures: international Explorations. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction.
Hills, A. 2007. “Police Commissioners, Presidents and the Governance of Security.” Journal of African Studies 45 (3): 409–423.
Kerr, K. 2020. “Assessing Gang Risks in Post-war Environments: The Case of Colombia.” Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 9 (1): 1–21.
Klein, M. 1997. The American Street Gang: It’s Nature, Prevalence and Control. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Covey, H. 2010. Street Gangs throughout the World. Springfield: Charles L. Thomas.
Kynoch, Gary. 2008. “Urban Violence in Colonial Africa: A Case for South African Exceptionalism.” Journal of South African Studies 34 (3): 629–45.
Mitton, K. 2021. “A Game of Pain: Youth Marginalization and the Gangs of Freetown.” Journal of Modern African Studies.
Moore, J. W. 1988. “Introduction: Gangs and the Underclass, A Comparative Perspective.” In People and Folks, edited by J. Hagedorn. Chicago, IL: Lake View, 3–17.
Obi, C. 2010. “Oil as the ‘Curse’ of Conflict in Africa: Peering through the Smoke and Mirrors.” In Conflict and Security in Africa, edited by R. Abrahamsen. Oxford: James Currey.
OECD/SWAC. 2020. “Africa’s Urbanization Dynamics 2020: Africapolis. Mapping a new Urban Geography, West African Studies.” Paris: OECD publishing. Accessed April 2, 2020. http://doi.org/10.1787/b6bccb81-en.
Rodgers, D., and R. Muggah. 2009. “Gangs as Non-state Armed Groups: The Central American Case.” Contemporary Security Policy 30 (2): 301–317.
Schuberth, M. 2015. “The Challenge of Community-based Armed Groups: Towards a Conceptualization of Militias, Gangs and Vigilantes.” Contemporary Security Policy 36 (2): 296–320.
Sinclair, G., and C. Williams. 2007. “Home and Away: The Cross-fertilization between ‘Colonial’ and British Policing, 1921–1985.” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 35 (2): 221–238.
Van Stapele, Naomi. 2021. “Gangs in Kenya: Work, Manhood and Security.” In Routledge International Handbook of Critical Gang Studies, edited by David C. Brotherton and Rafael Jose Gude. London/New York: Routledge, 489–502.
Waller, R. 2010. “Towards Contextualisation of Policing in Colonial Kenya.” Journal of East African Studies 493: 525–541.
Watts, M. 2007. “Petro-Insurgency or Criminal Syndicate? Conflict and Violence in the Niger Delta.” In Conflict and Security in Africa, edited by R. Abrahamsen. Oxford: James Currey.
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2022-06-01
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Omanga, Duncan, and Kennedy Mkutu Agade. 2022. “Introduction to Special Issue on Youth Groups and Gangs in the African Context”. Politeia 40 (2):8 Pages . https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6689/11239.
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