Gangs
2025
Urbanik, M. M., Valasik, M., Maier, K., Greene, C., and Enkhtugs, B. (2025). “It’s a trap!”: Exploring the rise of gang-led “cuckooing” and its relationship to homelessness. International Criminology, 5, 531–546. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43576-025-00167-3
Grekul, J. (2025). Hope and gang involvement. In S. Scioli & S. van den Heuvel (Eds.), The oxford compendium of hope (pp. 587–602). Oxford Academic. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197618240.003.0035
2024
Foster, S., & Grekul, J. (2024). "This might be cliché, but it was a sense of family": Gang involvement among Indigenous young adults and their search for attachment, community, and hope. Canadian Review of Sociology, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.12469
Urbanik, M.M. Bucerius, S. M. (2024). Women in gang research. In David C. Pyrooz, James A. Densley, & John Leverso (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society (pp. 287–311). Oxford Academic. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197618158.013.28
2021
Bucerius, S. M., Jones, D., & Haggerty, K. D. (2021). Indigenous gangs in Western Canada. In D. Brotherton (Ed.), Critical gang studies. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429462443-24/indigenous-gangs-western-canada-sandra-bucerius-daniel-jones-kevin-haggerty
Urbanik, M. (2021). “Gangbangers are gangbangers, hustlers are hustlers”: The rap game, social media, and gang violence in Toronto. In D. Brotherton & R. Gude (Eds.), International handbook of critical gang studies. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429462443-47/gangbangers-gangbangers-hustlers-hustlers-marta-marika-urbanik
2020
Berardi, L., & Bucerius, S. M. (2020). Organizational turning points: The transformation of the almighty Latin king and queen nation in New York City. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 45(2), 143–168. https://doi.org/10.29173/cjs29643
Urbanik, M. M., Roks, R. A., Storrod, M., & Densley, J. (2020). Emerging issues in gang ethnography: The challenges and opportunities of eurogang research in a digital age. In C. Melde & F. Weerman (Eds.), Gangs in the era of internet and social media (pp. 21–41). Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-47214-6_2
Urbanik, M. M., Roks, R. A. (2020). Gangstalife: Fusing urban ethnography with netnography in gang studies. Qualitative Sociology, 43, 213–233. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11133-020-09445-0
2018
Urbanik, M. (2018). Drawing boundaries or drawing weapons? Neighborhood master status as suppressor of gang violence. Qualitative Sociology, 41, 497–519. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11133-018-9401-3
Urbanik, M., Haggerty, K.D. (2018). ‘#It’s dangerous’: The online world of drug dealers, rappers and the street code. The British Journal of Criminology, 58(6), 1343–1360. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azx083