Urban legends : gang identity in the post-industrial city
Fraser, AlistairAuthor
Drawing on four years of varied ethnographic fieldwork in Langview, a deindustrialised working-class community in Glasgow, this book tells a unique and powerful story of young people, gang identity, and social change, challenging perceptions of gangs as a novel, universal, or pathological phenomenon.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drawing on four years of varied ethnographic fieldwork in Langview, a deindustrialised working-class community in Glasgow, this book tells a unique and powerful story of young people, gang identity, and social change, challenging perceptions of gangs as a novel, universal, or pathological phenomenon.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 26, 2015).
Gangs
Youth
Human territoriality
Juvenile delinquency
Organized crime
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency
Social Welfare & Social Work
Social Sciences