Table of Contents

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.

Promotional Information

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

About the Author

The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. It serves as the principal source of public information on all aspects of small arms and armed violence and as a resource centre for governments, policy-makers, researchers, and activists.

Reviews

'As demonstrated in the Small Arms Survey 2010, addressing the factors that trigger conflicts and fuel gang violence has a much more lasting - and constructive - impact than simply incarcerating or marginalizing members of street gangs and armed groups.' Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

'The Small Arms Survey 2010 provides further evidence that efforts to address gangs and gang violence must encompass a wide range of measures - including not only targeted law enforcement tactics and illicit gun interdiction, but also prevention and youth development initiatives. In the long term, we must address the factors that lead young people to join gangs in the first place.' Guillermo Cespedes, Office of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles

'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