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Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment resources

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Contributors Leonisa Ardizzone is executive director of the Salvadori Center in New York City and taught at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education. She is a former high school teacher who is interested in peace education, youth culture, science, and spiri- tuality and the author of Gettin’ My Word Out: Voices of Urban Youth Activists. Randy Blazak is an associate professor of sociology at Portland State University. He is the director of the Hate Crimes Research Network (www.hatecrime.net), which con- nects academic work on bias criminality. He is also the co- founder of Oregon Spotlight, which monitors hate groups in the state of Oregon, and chair of the Oregon Coalition Against Hate Crimes. He has published his research on youth and hate in journals, book chapters, and books, including his text with Wayne S. Wooden, Renegade Kids, Suburban Outlaws: From Youth Culture to Delinquency (2001), and an upcoming text for Wadsworth on juvenile delinquency. His most recent work appears in The Encyclo- pedia of Terrorism (2002) and Home- Grown Hate (2004). Blazak is currently researching racist Odinism among white supremacist inmates. Barbara Brents is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the Univer- sity of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has published research on political confl ict, social policy, social movements, sexuality, and the sex industry. She is currently co- authoring a book on the brothel industry in Nevada. David C. Brotherton is a professor and chair of sociology at John Jay College of Crimi- nal Justice, the City University of New York. In 1994, Dr. Brotherton came to John Jay College of Criminal Justice to continue his research on street subcultures, youth resis- tance, and marginalization, co- founding the Street Organization Project with Luis Bar- rios in 1997. He has received numerous research grants from private and public agencies and has published widely in journals, books, newspapers, and magazines. His research interests include the transnationalization of gangs and the intersection of social control

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