Homicide And Globalization
Chicago vs. New York City and London

Why have homicides dropped in New York City but not Chicago?And why are US cities so much less safe than European cities?

"Gangs, Space, and Violence in Chicago" - a study at
the UIC Great Cities Institute

Funded by the
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

Gangs around the Globe- Sites on Gangs in countries outside the United States of America

Which Country is safer? Brazil or the United States? Some surprising charts

Children in Organised Armed Violence- a twelve nation study

Contested Cities - Why are some cities persistently violent?

Gangs in the Global City - Soon an edited volume from
The University of Illinois Press

Are Gangs Terrorists? - The Nature of Gangs in Late Modernity

Susan Sontag on Terrorism

Noam Chomsky on 9-11

NBC on Gangs and Terrorism (Video clip)

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