The Gang and Beyond
Subtitle: Interpreting Violent Street Worlds
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Oct 01, 2013
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781137358097
Description: Challenging the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime' this book repudiates claims which situate the gang at the heart of sexual violence, mass shooting and control of the illegal drugs trade. It pushes the epistemological, methodological and ontological borders of cultural criminology in order to understand violent street worlds and the informal organisations that operate within them. In part polemic, in part theoretical treatise, the book deciphers the gang talk now mediated by a developing industry of gang-talkers and explores how street realities have become lost in a collectively induced fantasy where gangs are regarded as public enemy number one. The book makes a case for returning to the analysis of street culture and the imperatives that orientate patterns of social action within it. It concludes by examining how better we might understand the violence of the street and the organisations that inhabit it.
Notes: Source title: The Gang and Beyond: Interpreting Violent Street Worlds