Beschreibung:
Drawing on a wealth of highly acclaimed original research, Brotherton explores the socially layered practices of street gangs; including community movements, cultural projects and sites of social resistance. The book also critically reviews gang theory and the geographical trajectories of streets gangs from New York and Puerto Rico to Europe, the Caribbean and South America, as well as state-sponsored reactions and the enabling role of orthodox criminology.
Introduction 1. Gangs and the Community - History From Below 2. Divergent Gazes: From Humanism to Hobbesian Positivism and Social Reproduction 3. Gangs and Situated Resistance: Agency, Structure, Culture and Politics 4. Studying the Gang Critically 5. Imagining Gangs: From Folk Devils to Objects of Desire 6. Reflections From the Field 7. The Need For A Critical Gang Studies 8. Conclusion Appendix: Cultural Criminology and its Practices: a Dialogue Between the Theorist and the Street Researcher, Jock Young and David C. Brotherton.