The Gang and Beyond [electronic resource] : Interpreting Violent Street Worlds /
Hallsworth, S.author.
This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at the heart of sexual violence, mass shooting and control of the illegal drugs trade and examining how better we might understand the violence of the street and the organisations that inhabit it.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index.
Introduction -- Gangs, weapons and violence -- The fists and the fury : my life in a sea of gangs -- Deciphering gang talk -- Moral panic and industry -- Arborialism and rhizomatics -- Back to the street -- Continuities and discontinuities in urban violence -- Bibliography -- Notes.
This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at the heart of sexual violence, mass shooting and control of the illegal drugs trade and examining how better we might understand the violence of the street and the organisations that inhabit it.
Criminology.
Youth-Social life and customs.
Critical criminology.
Police.
Crime-Sociological aspects.
Sociology, Urban.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Youth Culture.
Critical Criminology.
Policing.
Crime and Society.
Urban Studies/Sociology.