Introduction: Globalization, gangs, and traditional criminology / John M. Hagedorn -- Part I. Theoretical perspectives: Gangs, institutions, race, and space: the Chicago School revisited / John M. Hagedorn -- Three pernicious premises in the study of the American ghetto / Loïs J.D. Wacquant -- Globalization and social exclusion: the sociology of vindictiveness and the criminology of transgression / Jock Young -- Part II. Spaces of globalization: The global city: one setting for the new types of gang work and political culture? / Saskia Sassen -- Observing New Zealand "gangs," 1950-2000: learning from a small country / Cameron Hazlehurst -- Rapid urbanization and migrant indigenous youth in San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico / Jan Rus and Diego Vigil -- Part III. Identities of resistance: Female gangs: gender and globalization / Joan W. Moore -- Youth groupings, identity, and the political context: on the significance of extremist youth groupings in unified Germany / Joachim Kersten -- Gangs and spirituality of liberation / Luis Barrios -- Part IV. Response to neoliberalism: Toward the gang as a social movement / David C. Brotherton -- Americanization, the third way, and the racialization of youth crime and disorder / John Pitts -- Part V. Conclusion: Gangs in late modernity / John M. Hagedorn -- The challenges of gangs in global contexts / James F. Short, Jr.