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In October 2011, the first author of this chapter was invited to participate in the international conference Ending Gang Violence, organized by the British Home Office in answer to the youth rioting the previous summer. The aim of that event, according to the letter of invitation, was ‘to provoke discussion and debate with the objective of identifying best practice on tackling gang violence and examining what could be applied in England and Wales to strengthen and improve current approaches’. About 30 European and American experts participated at the conference, most of them police officers and intelligence agency members, although some academics, youth workers and civil society representatives of the neighbourhoods where the riots had taken place were also invited. Apart from Europol members and French police officers who had intervened after the banlieues riots in 2005, the main speakers were police officers from the United States who were experts in gangs, including Bill Braton, former chief of New York and Los Angeles Police Departments.
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Feixa, C., Romaní, O. (2014). From Local Gangs to Global Tribes: The Latin Kings and Queens Nation in Catalonia. In: Buckingham, D., Bragg, S., Kehily, M.J. (eds) Youth Cultures in the Age of Global Media. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137008152_6
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