Small Arms Survey 2010
Gangs, Groups, and Guns

Reviews knowledge about gangs and non-state armed groups worldwide, and interventions designed to curb the risks associated with them.

Small Arms Survey, Geneva (Author)

9780521197113, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 June 2010

352 pages, 84 b/w illus. 2 maps 27 tables
25.4 x 19.4 x 2.5 cm, 1.11 kg

'The Small Arms Survey 2010: Gangs, Groups, and Guns documents the scope, seriousness, and persistence of gangs and armed groups.' John M. Hagedorn, University of Illinois, Chicago

The Small Arms Survey 2010 focuses on gangs and non-state armed groups. Gang violence, while typically directed at other gang members, can account for a major portion of social violence. Armed groups - whatever their orientation to the state - are of growing concern in conflict and post-conflict settings, where their activities can have serious repercussions for human security. This volume reviews a range of issues related to gangs and armed groups, exploring their functions, roles, and use of violence, as well as emerging efforts to address the damage they inflict on society. The volume explores prison gangs, gender aspects of gangs, and pro-government groups; it also features case studies from Ecuador and southern Sudan. Original research on the global ammunition trade and on options for controlling illicit firearm transfers by air rounds out the book.

1. Emerging from obscurity: the global ammunition trade
2. Controlling air transport: practice, options, and challenges
Photo essay: gang life: between belonging and exclusion
3. Gangs, groups, and guns: an overview
4. Elusive arsenals: gang and group firearms
5. Gang violence worldwide: context, culture, and country
6. The danger of dungeons: prison gangs and incarcerated militant groups
7. The other half: girls in gangs
8. An Ecuadorian alternative: gang reintegration
9. Getting past suppression: street gang interventions
10. Force multiplier: pro-government armed groups
11. Back to the brink: armed violence in southern Sudan
12. Options for engagement: armed groups and humanitarian norms.

Subject Areas: International criminal law [LBBZ], International humanitarian law [LBBS], International relations [JPS], Politics & government [JP]