Sureños gangs and Mexican cartel use of social networking sites

Small Wars and Insurgencies

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 81-94

  Womer, Sarah ^a   Bunker, Robert J ^b  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Counter OPFOR Corporation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; Gangs; Internet; Los Zetas; Mexican cartels; MS 13; MySpace; Social networking; Sur 13; Surenos; Terrorists

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956249172     PISSN: 09592318     EISSN: 17439558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09592310903561486     Document Type: Article

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