Resolving The Eurogang Paradox

Abstract

The goal of this volume is to share knowledge and ideas about street gangs, a matter that has long been an American staple and is now beginning to take on a European flavor. We are facing what I have come to call The Eurogang Paradox. The paradox has to do with denials that there are street gangs in Europe, because the gangs patterns don’t fit the American pattern of highly structured, cohesive, violent gangs. But then neither do most American gangs fit the pattern.