Topic 2: Types of Offending / Gangs (Eurogang WG)

Frank Weerman, NSCR & Erasmus University Rotterdam

Crips, Bloods & Skins: Are White Power Groups Cut from the Same Cloth as Conventional Gangs? - Matthew Valasik, The University of Alabama; Shannon E. Reid, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Jane C. Daquin, Sam Houston State University

Gangs, devil worship and African witchcraft: Toward the development of a contemporary typology for occult-gangs - Ashwill Ramon Phillips, Lecturer, Department of Criminology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Informal prison hierarchies in the 21 century: subcultures, trends and social control - Dmytro Yagunov, Eberhard and Karl University (Tübingen, Germany)

Lived experiences of gang-affiliated violence and trauma - Ron Dodzro, Psychologists The Streets Deserve (PTSD)/Juvenis; Winston Goode, Juvenis