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Blood Sacrifices: Violent Non-State Actors and Dark Magico (2016)
By Robert J. Bunker
Excerpt from Amazon: The acknowledgment that blood sacrifice, particularly human sacrifice, actively occurs in
the 21st century is a pivotal triumph in scholarly research. Twenty years ago, this book could not have been
published. In most universities, think tanks, and government research facilities, characterizing any type of murder
as sacrificial was viewed at best as a secondary motive and at worst as junk science. - Dr. Dawn Perlmutter"
Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars (2011)
By Sylvia Longmire
Excerpt from Amazon: Having followed Mexico's cartels for years, border security expert Sylvia Longmire takes us
deep into the heart of their world to witness a dangerous underground that will do whatever it takes to deliver
drugs to a willing audience of American consumers. The cartels have grown increasingly bold in recent years,
building submarines to move up the coast of Central America and digging elaborate tunnels that both move drugs
north and carry cash and U.S. high-powered assault weapons back to fuel the drug war. Channeling her long
experience working on border issues, Longmire brings to life the very real threat of Mexican cartels operating not
just along the southwest border, but deep inside every corner of the United States. She also offers real solutions to
the critical problems facing Mexico and the United States, including programs to deter youth in Mexico from joining
the cartels and changing drug laws on both sides of the border.
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El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels (2017)
By Ioan Grillo
Excerpt from Amazon: 'War' is no exaggeration in discussing the bloodshed that has terrorized Mexico in the past
decades. As rival cartels battle for control of a billion-dollar drug trade, the body count- 23,000 dead in five years -
and sheer horror beggar the imagination of journalistic witnesses. Cartel gunmen have shot up schools and
rehabilitation centers, and murdered the entire families of those who defy them. Reformers and law enforcement
officials have been gunned down within hours of taking office. Headless corpses are dumped on streets to
intimidate rivals, and severed heads are rolled onto dancefloors as messages to would-be opponents. And the war is
creeping northward. El Narco is the story of the ultraviolent criminal organizations that have turned huge areas of
Mexico into a combat zone. It is a piercing portrait of a drug trade that turns ordinary men into mass murderers, as
well as a diagnosis of what drives the cartels and what gives them such power. Veteran Mexico correspondent Ioan
Grillo traces the gangs from their origins as smugglers to their present status as criminal empires. The narco cartels
are a threat to the Mexican government, and their violence has now reached as far as North Carolina. El Narco is
required reading for anyone concerned about one of the most important news stories of the decade.
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The Gangs of Los Angeles
By William Dunn
According to the book description, The Gangs of Los Angeles describes that “there is no gang turf more desperately
unique than that hidden among the 464 square miles which make up the City of Los Angeles. It is a fragile place;
both tantalizing and repulsive, where wild fires can scorch hill-top celebrity homes as easily as gang members
decimate a housing project with automatic rifle fire. The Gangs of Los Angeles is a classic, real life account of
American crime. From the early Tomato Gangs of 1890's Boyle Heights to the modern Crips and Mara Salvatrucha,
with side trips through an Irish Dogtown, the gang wars of "Happy Valley", Sleepy Lagoon and the yellow journalism
of the Hearst Press, and a tragic murder at Sunset and Vine, Dunn recounts the events and notorious denizens that
spawned LA's gang subculture.” William Dunn said of The Gangs of Los Angeles, “This book is the culmination of
five years I spent researching the history of LA's gang culture. I've been a gang cop (both in a CRASH unit and as a
gang detective) in this city almost two decades, and I'd heard all the urban legends about the origins of the Crips,
the Bloods, White Fence, MS-13, etc. Little of it made sense, and it seemed you could ask any two OG or Veteranos
the same question about their gangs past and get two separate answers. So I wanted to know what the truth was,
especially after other gang investigators in other states, now being hit with our gang members who were migrating
from our town to their areas, were calling me and asking me not only what we'd done to fight the gang culture, but
how did it all begin. They didn't want to make the same mistakes. So I went back, into the 50', the 40's, the 30's,
even back to 1892 when it all begins, to see how it started, and what the city did to suppress the gang culture, both
the stuff that worked, and the stuff that didn't. For more information about gangs you can read my other book
Boot: An L.A.P.D. Officer's Rookie Year which details my first year as a street cop in South Central during the Crip
and Blood wars of 1990. I will also soon be publishing a book called "The Tequila Triangle" which is a history of
Mexican Border drug cartels like The Gulf, Juarez, Tijuana, Sonora, etc. Cartels; as well as the "Sicario" (assassination)
groups like the Sinaloan Cowboys, Zetas and Kaibiles; and how all these organizations have corrupted and
influenced Los Angeles' gang and drug culture; and where these ties could be taking our country!”
Gangs and Youth Subcultures: International Explorations.
By Kayleen M. Hazlehurst, Cameron Hazlehurst
Gang Life: 10 of the toughest tell their stories (2014)
by Mark Totten
Gringo Justice: Catholicism in American Culture
By Alfredo Mirandé
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Jumped In
By jorja Leap
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The Los Zetas Drug Cartel - Sadism as an Instrument of Cartel Warfare in Mexico and Central America (2015)
By George W. Grayson
Excerpt from Amazon:The United States has diplomatic relations with 194 independent nations. Of these, none is
more important to America than Mexico in terms of trade, investment, tourism, natural resources, migration,
energy, and security. In recent years, narco-violence has afflicted our neighbor to the south—with more than 50,000
drugrelated murders since 2007 and some 26,000 men, women, and children missing. President Enrique Peña Nieto
has tried to divert national attention from the bloodshed through reforms in energy, education, antihunger, health
care, and other areas. Even though the death rate has declined since the chief executive took office on December 1,
2012, other crimes continue to plague his nation. Members of the business community report continual extortion
demands; national oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) suffers widespread theft of oil, gas, explosives, and
solvents (with which to prepare methamphetamines); hundreds of Central American migrants have shown up in
mass graves; and the public identifies the police with corruption and villainy. A common fear of the elite and
growing middle class is kidnapping. In 2012, Mexico recorded 105,000 cases; in 2013, the country led the world in
abductions, surpassing such volatile nations as Afghanistan, Colombia, and Iraq. Los Zetas, who deserted from the
army’s special forces in the late-1990s, not only traffic in drugs, murder, kidnap, and raid PEMEX installations, but
also involve themselves in extortion, human smuggling, torture, money laundering, prostitution, arson, prison
breakouts, murder for hire, and other felonies. While consisting of only a few hundred hard core members, these
paramilitaries have gained a reputation for the sadistic treatment of foes and friends—a legacy of their two top
leaders, Heriberto “The Executioner” Lazcano Lazcano and Miguel Ángel “El 40” Treviño Morales, who thrived on
beheadings, castrations, “stewing” their prey in gasoline-filled vats, and other heinous acts. They make
sophisticated use of social media and public hangings to display their savagery and cow adversaries. The
reputation for the unspeakable infliction of pain has enabled these desperados to commit atrocities in a score of
Mexican states, even as they expend their presence, often in league with local gangs and crime families, in
Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and other nations of the Americas. From their bastion in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,
across the border from Laredo, Texas, they also acquire weapons, entrée to legal businesses, and teenage recruits.
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the fiends have contracted with such outfits as the Texas Mexican
Mafia prison gang, the Houston’s Tango Blast, and the McAllen, Texas-based Los Piojos to collect debts, acquire
vehicles, carry out hits, and sign up thugs to fight their foes in the Matamoros-centered Gulf Cartel for which Los
Zetas originally served as a Praetorian Guard. Washington policymakers, who overwhelmingly concentrate on Asia
and the Mideast, would be well advised to focus on the acute dangers that lie principally south of the Rio Grande,
but whose deadly avatars are spilling into our nation.
Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America (2009)
P. David Gaubatz Paul Sperry
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Nasty, Brutish and Short: The Lives of Gang Members in Canada
by Mark Totten
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Reducing Youth Gang Violence (2007)
By Irving Spergel
Racketville, Slumtown, Haulburg: An Exploratory Study of Delinquent Subcultures (1964), a groundbreaking book
based on his Ph.D. dissertation.
By Irving Spergel
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Youth Gangs and Community Intervention: Research, Practice and Evidence (2010)
Edited by Robert Chaskin, associate professor at SSA. Note: Spergel recently contributed a chapter to Youth Gangs
and Community Intervention: Research, Practice and Evidence, edited by Robert Chaskin, associate professor at
SSA. The book, published this year, was created from a series of papers by leading colleagues and gang researchers
that were presented at a 2006 conference honoring Spergel’s retirement. (2010, from
https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2010/12/08/irving-spergel-leading-scholar-gangs-1924-2010)
The Youth Gang Problem: A Community Approach (1995)
By Irving Spergel
Excerpt from https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2010/12/08/irving-spergel-leading-scholar-gangs-1924-2010: A
seminal work that described a model — now commonly referred to as the Spergel model — for intervention that has
been adopted by the U.S. Department of Justice to combat gang violence around the country. Spergel said of the
model: “This project goes beyond traditional programs, because it facilitates communication and coordinates
efforts by all the groups who want to reach out to youth who are seriously at risk of joining gangs or who are violent
gang members. It provides opportunities for both adolescents and young adults in gangs to change their lives. All
gang kids are not the same, and this model recognizes that and provides different solutions for different problems.”
The model calls for a coordinated effort against gangs characterized by community organization and neighborhood
mobilization; social intervention, including jobs, job training and education; suppression, including arrest,
incarceration and supervision; and organizational development and change. The U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention demonstrated and evaluated the model in Bloomington, Ill.; Mesa and Tucson, Ariz.;
Riverside, Calif.; and San Antonio, Texas from 1992 to 1999, proving through quasi-experimental evaluations that the
model was successful when correctly implemented. In the years since, the model has been successfully
implemented at five additional test sites and has been adopted by more than 20 cities around the country. The
model is the central component of the National Gang Center, an OJJDP program that disseminates research on
gangs and offers training and assistance to law enforcement, social workers and communities. It was later renamed
the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model.