"Getting High and Getting By" : Dimensions of Drug Selling Behaviour Among American Mexican Gang Members in South Texas  

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Valdez, Avelardo ; Sifaneck, Stephen J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (http://jrc.sagepub.com/) vol. 41 no. 1 (Feb. 2004), page 82-105.
Topik: dimensions; gangs; drug selling and dealing; mexican americans
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This article discerns the role that mexican american gang members play in drug markets and the relationship between gang members' drug use and drug selling in south texas. A four - part typology based on the two dimensions of gang type and gang member emerged from this qualitative analysis of 160 male gang members : homeboys, hustlers, slangers and ballers. Major findings include the following : 1. many gang members are user / sellers and are not profit oriented dealers 2. gangs commonly do extend "protection" to drug - selling members, and 3. proximity to mexican drug markets, adult prison gangs, and criminal family members may play important in whether these gang members have access and the profit potential to actually drugs. This research contributes to our complex intersections between gangs, drug using and drug selling.

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