Gangs

On the Record: Illicit Weapons in the United States, by Matt Schroeder, 2014. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2014: Women and Guns.

Captured and Counted: Illicit Weapons in Mexico and the Philippines, by Matt Schroeder, 2013. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday Dangers.

Turning Points: Gang Evolution in Nicaragua, by Dennis Rodgers and José Luis Rocha, 2013. Also available in Spanish. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday Dangers.

When Business Gets Bloody: State Policy and Drug Violence, by Benjamin Lessing, 2012. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2012: Moving Targets.

In Transit: Gangs and Criminal Networks in Guyana, by Taylor Owen and Alexandre Grigsby, February 2012. Working Paper No. 11

• Overview

Confronting the Don: The Political Economy of Gang Violence in Jamaica, by Glaister Leslie, November 2010. Occasional Paper No. 26

• Overview

Photo Essay: Gang Life: Between Belonging and Exclusion. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2010: Gangs, Groups, and Guns.

Elusive Arsenals: Gang and Group Firearms, by Aaron Karp, 2010. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2010: Gangs, Groups, and Guns.

Gang Violence Worldwide: Context, Culture, and Country, by Scott H.Decker and David C. Pyrooz, 2010. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2010: Gangs, Groups, and Guns.

The Danger of Dungeons: Prison Gangs and Incarcerated Militant Groups, by Benjamin Lessing, 2010. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2010: Gangs, Groups, and Guns. 

Gangs, Groups, and Guns: An Overview, by Jennifer M.Hazen, 2010. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2010: Gangs, Groups, and Guns.

The Other Half: Girls in Gangs, by Helen Moestue and Jasna Lazarevic, 2010. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2010: Gangs, Groups, and Guns.

An Ecuadorian Alternative: Gang Reintegration, by Vanessa Johnston, 2010. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2010: Gangs, Groups, and Guns.

Getting Past Suppression: Street Gang Interventions, by Charles Kaplan, Avelardo Valez and Alice Cepeda, 2010. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2010: Gangs, Groups, and Guns.

Gangs of Central America: Causes, Costs, and Interventions, by Dennis Rodgers, Robert Muggah, and Chris Stevenson, May 2009. Occasional Paper No. 23

Small Arms in Rio de Janeiro: The Guns, the Buyback, and the Victims, by Pablo Dreyfus, Luis Eduardo Guedes, Ben Lessing, Antônio Rangel Bandeira, Marcelo de Sousa Nascimento, and Patricia Silveira Rivero, a study by the Small Arms Survey, Viva Rio, and ISER, December 2008. Special Report No. 9

Small Arms, Armed Violence, and Insecurity in Nigeria: The Niger Delta in Perspective, by Jennifer M. Hazen with Jonas Horner, December 2007. Occasional Paper No. 20

Enemy Within: Ammunition Diversion in Uganda and Brazil, by James Bevan and Pablo Dreyfus, 2007. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City.

The Militarization of Sudan: a Preliminary Review of Arms Flows and Holdings, April 2007. HSBA Issue Brief No. 6 (also available in Arabic)

Crime and Ammunition Procurement: The Case of Brazil, by Pablo Dreyfus, 2006. In Stéphanie Pézard and Holger Anders, eds. Targeting Ammunition: A Primer.

The Other Side of the Coin: Demand for Small Arms, by Anne-Kathrin Glatz and Robert Muggah, 2006. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2006: Unfinished Business.

Few Options but the Gun: Angry Young Men, by James Bevan and Nicolas Florquin, 2006. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2006: Unfinished Business.

Securing Haiti’s Transition: Reviewing Human Insecurity and the Prospects for Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration, by Robert Muggah, November 2005. Occasional Paper No. 14 (also available in French)

Crime, Conflict, and Corruption: Global Illicit Small Arms Transfers, by Maria Haug, 2001. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2001: Profiling the Problem.

Leslie, Glaister and Robert Muggah. 2010. Jamaica’s War on Gangs. Open Security. 13 September.

ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross). 2010. Urban Violence. International Review of the Red Cross. Vol. 92, No. 878. June. Geneva and Cambridge: ICRC
 and Cambridge University Press.

Muggah, Robert. 2010. Fighting the Gang Threat. The Mark (online). 11 May.

Muggah, Robert. 2010. We must rethink the rebuilding of Haiti. The Globe and Mail online. 18 January.

Townsend, Dorn and Robert Muggah. 2009. A Gangster’s Paradise. Open Democracy. 2 December.

Jütersonke, Oliver, Robert Muggah, and Dennis Rodgers. 2009. Gangs and Violence Reduction in Central America. Security Dialogue, vol. 40, Nos. 4-5. pp. 1-25. Geneva and Manchester: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and University of Manchester.

Muggah, Robert and Dennis Rodgers. 2009. Gangs as Non-State Armed Groups: The Central American Case. Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 301 — 317.

NGIC (National Gang Intelligence Center) and NDIC (National Drug 
Intelligence Center). 2009. National Gang Threat Assessment. January. Washington DC: NGIC and NDIC.

Kruijt, Dirk. 2008. Violencia y pobreza en América Latina: Los actores armados. Pensamiento Iberoamericano. No. 2. Pp. 55-70.

Dowdney, Luke. 2005. Neither War no Peace: International Comparisons
 of Children and Youth in Organized Armed Violence. Rio de Janeiro:
 Children in Organized Armed Violence (COAV).

Decker, Scott. 1996. Collective and Normative Features of Gang Violence. Justice Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 2. June, pp 243 – 264. Greenbelt, MD: Academy of Criminal Justice Science.