EARLY GANGS

 

The Gang: A study of 1313 gangs by Frederick Thrasher.

This is the classic study of gangs by the father of gang research in 1920s Chicago. Watch this site for access to a digitized copy of this book when it passes into the public domain.

1927/1963 Chicago. Univesity of Chicago Press

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Reference material on the Chicago School

 

 

REMOVED AFTER OBJECTION BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

 

This is the famous map of Chicago's "Gangland" in 1923-1926 by Frederic Thrasher

 

 

Below is the famous Chicago School map of concentric circles. Gangs were products of the interstitial areas between the first and second settlements.