Beschreibung:
Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'. Comprising a series of essays from leading national and international researchers, this book subjects such claims to rigorous critical scrutiny. It provides a challenging and authoritative account of complex questions pertaining to urban youth identities, crime and social order.
1. Perpetual Novelty: Youth, Modernity and Historical Amnesia 2. Youth Gangs and Late-Victorian Society3. 'It's Just an Area - Everybody Represents It': Exploring Young People's Territorial Behaviour in British Cities4. Collateral Damage: Territory and Policing in an English Gang City5. Place, Territory and Young People's Identity in the 'New' Northern Ireland6. Beyond Dichotomy: Towards and Explanation of Young Women's Involvement in Violent Street Gangs7. In Search of the 'Shemale' Gangster 8. Young People and 'Weaponisation'9. Mercenary Territory: Are Youth Gangs Really a Problem?10. Gangland Britain: Realities, Fantasies and Industry 11. Gangs and Transnationalism