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Thomas W. Ward

Expert in youth violence and gangs, globalization of gangs and gang intervention and prevention

Lecturer, Anthropology
College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Contact at: (213) 740-8222 (office), (626) 818-8761 (cell) or tww@usc.edu


Expertise:
    • street gangs
    • transnational gangs
    • the globalization of gangs
    • Central American gangs (especially in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras)
    • Latino gangs
    • youth violence
    • girls in gangs
    • gang initiation and gang tattoos
    • gangs and the media
    • gangs and prison
    • gang intervention and prevention
    • the origin and causes of gangs
Additional Information:
    • Keynote speaker, National Youth Gang Center symposium, 2005
    • Consultant with Rand and the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA
    • Expert witness on street gangs for criminal and immigration courts in California

Foreign Languages:
Spanish

More:
For more information go to:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/anth/FacultyPages/ward.html