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Globalization, Gangs, and Collaborative Research

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Sometimes new facts are right there staring us in the face, but we fail to see them. U.S. gangs are like that. They have been undergoing some sweeping changes in the last decade, but we’ve sometimes failed to notice some rather significant facts.

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Hagedorn, J.M. (2001). Globalization, Gangs, and Collaborative Research. In: Klein, M.W., Kerner, HJ., Maxson, C.L., Weitekamp, E.G.M. (eds) The Eurogang Paradox. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0882-2_3

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