Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research: Volume 13 Issue 2/3

Guest editorial

Jason Gravel, Matthew Valasik, Shannon E. Reid

Explaining the directionality of gang violence with court records

Gisela Bichler, Alexis Norris, Citlalik Ibarra

Studies of gang violence typically use police reports to investigate the structure of gang conflict, but overreliance on a singular data source could impede crime control efforts…

Reflections on the utility of school-based surveys for gang research

Kyle J. Thomas, Terrance J. Taylor

The purpose of this paper is to consider the utility of school-based research for studying gangs and gang members. Police–researcher collaborations have led to considerable…

Social networks and gangs: moving research forward with low-cost data collection opportunities in school and prison settings

Martin Bouchard

As useful as police data have been in furthering our knowledge of gangs and gang violence networks, not everything about gang networks can be learned from examining police data…

Corruption, impunity and mistrust: moving beyond police gatekeepers for researching gangs

Ellen Van Damme

This paper aims to discuss the importance of having several entry points into the field, via gatekeepers who do not belong to law enforcement agencies, in contexts where the…

If crime is not the problem, crime fighting is no solution: policing gang violence in the age of abolition

Elke Van Hellemont, James Densley

In their 1999 classic, Crime is Not the Problem, Zimring and Hawkins changed the way criminologists thought about crime and violence simply by forcing us to distinguish between…

An evaluator’s reflections and lessons learned about gang intervention strategies: an agenda for research

Caterina G. Roman

This paper is designed to critically review and analyze the body of research on a popular gang reduction strategy, implemented widely in the United States and a number of other…