Outlaw gangs in an outlaw society : Jorge Luis Borge's "The dread redeemer Lazarus Morell" (1972) and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
The Irish immigrant : Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York (1927)
The draft riots : Kevin Baker's Paradise Alley (2002)
New York gangs around the turn of the twentieth century : Jorge Luis Borge's "Monk Eastman, purveyor of iniquities" (1972)
A heritage of guns : Larry McMurtry's Anything for Billy (1998)
The 1920s in Chicago : James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan (1932)
Jewish gangs in Brownsville, 1944-1945 : Irving Shulman's The Amboy Dukes (1946)
1940s in Harlem : Richard Wright's Rite of passage (1978)
Nazis and gangs : William Golding's Lord of the flies (1954)
A girl gang in the 1950s : Joyce Carol Oates' Foxfire (1993)
Gangs in the 1960s : S.E. Hinton's The outsiders (1967)
Vietnam and civil rights : Pat Conroy's The lords of discipline (1980)
Prep schools and Watergate : Robert Cormier's The chocolate war (1974)
Family disintegration in the 1980's : Walter Dean Myers' Scorpions (1988)
1960s Los Angeles : Frank Bonham's Durango Street (1965)
South Central Los Angeles : Kody Scott's Monster (1993)
Barrio gangs of the 1960s and 1970s : Luis Rodriguez' Always running, La Vida Loca: gang days in L.A. (1993)
Filipino Americans : Brian Ascalon Roley's American son (2001)
Vietnamese gangs and skinheads : Sherry Garland's Shadow of the dragon (1993)
Chinese gangs : Dan Mahoney's The two Chinatowns (2001).