“Police took my homie I dedicate my life 2 his revenge”: Twitter tensions between gang-involved youth and police in Chicago.
The hostile and adversarial relationship between youth and police in urban settings has remained pervasive and persistent for centuries. This is a tension historically rooted in the miasma of lack of trust; racial, ethnic, and cultural differences; and fear, anger, and hostility from racialized surv...
| Published in: | Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment Vol. 26; no. 3/4; pp. 310 - 325 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr-Jun2016
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