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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006. / Title from title page. Gabriel Kuperminc,committee chair; Christopher Henrich, Julia Perilla, committee members. Electronic text (49 p. : ill.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 8, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-49).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed May 29, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-65).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2009. / Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 164-186).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2009. / Title from file title page. Gabriel Kuperminc, committee chair; Christopher Henrich, Joel Meyers, Julia Perilla, committee members. Description based on contents viewed June 18, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-57).

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-102). Also available on the World Wide Web.

A social issue of great importance in contemporary society is the involvement of youth in gangs. Youth involvement in gang activity has dominated the national media and the minds of public policy makers in contemporary society. In this thesis I examine how Latino and Chicano youth sub-culture, language, dress, and style, has been first, misinterpreted and secondarily reconstructed, as a criminal subculture by public policy makers, local law enforcement officials, public school administrators, and the general public. The construction of Latino and Chicano youth subculture as criminal has occurred through the process of labeling. In this process culture and crime have become intertwined where specific cultures and their members are perceived and then reclassified as criminal subcultures. This thesis provides a case study of the process of labeling in a community located in the Pacific Northwest. The community where this research project was conducted has undergone tremendous fluctuations in its population demographics. These changes have led to underlying tensions and conflicts between the various ethnic and linguistic groups represented in the community. It is within this context that the issue of youth gangs must be analyzed. The specific purposes of thesis are to: provide the theoretical framework to view the social discourse of youth gangs; document and analyze the community context which has contributed to the emergence of the social discourse of youth gangs; to document how culture, style, and crime have become intertwined to inaccurately characterize Latino and Chicano youth sub-culture as gang culture; to document and analyze how the social discourse of youth gangs has been constructed as a moral panic; and to provide possible solutions from applied anthropology. / Graduation date: 2002

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2005. / Leslie C. Jackson, Gabriel P. Kuperminc, committee co-chairs; Gregory J. Jurkovic, committee member. Electronic text (64 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 17, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-48).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-164). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-78). Also available on the Internet.