Gangs in the global city
Subtitle: alternatives to traditional criminology
By: edited by John M. Hagedorn.
Contributors: Hagedorn, John, 1947-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780252030963; 9780252073373
Subjects: Gangs; Crime and race; Crime and globalization; Criminology -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Globalization, gangs, and traditional criminology / John M. Hagedorn; title: Part I. Theoretical perspectives: Gangs, institutions, race, and space: the Chicago School revisited / John M. Hagedorn; title: Three pernicious premises in the study of the American ghetto / Loïs J.D. Wacquant; title: Globalization and social exclusion: the sociology of vindictiveness and the criminology of transgression / Jock Young; title: Part II. Spaces of globalization: The global city: one setting for the new types of gang work and political culture? / Saskia Sassen; title: Observing New Zealand "gangs," 1950-2000: learning from a small country / Cameron Hazlehurst; title: Rapid urbanization and migrant indigenous youth in San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico / Jan Rus and Diego Vigil; title: Part III. Identities of resistance: Female gangs: gender and globalization / Joan W. Moore; title: Youth groupings, identity, and the political context: on the significance of extremist youth groupings in unified Germany / Joachim Kersten; title: Gangs and spirituality of liberation / Luis Barrios; title: Part IV. Response to neoliberalism: Toward the gang as a social movement / David C. Brotherton; title: Americanization, the third way, and the racialization of youth crime and disorder / John Pitts; title: Part V. Conclusion: Gangs in late modernity / John M. Hagedorn; title: The challenges of gangs in global contexts / James F. Short, Jr.