David Brotherton

Youth Street Gangs (eBook, ePUB)

A critical appraisal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on a wealth of highly acclaimed original research, Brotherton explores the socially layered practices of street gangs; including community movements, cultural projects and sites of social resistance. The book also critically reviews gang theory and the geographical trajectories of streets gangs from New York and Puerto Rico to Europe, the Caribbean and South America, as well as state-sponsored reactions and the enabling role of orthodox criminology.

The book is essential reading for academics and students involved in the study of juvenile delinquency, youth studies, deviance, gang studies and cultural criminology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135005948
• Artikelnr.: 42726317

Autorenporträt

David C. Brotherton grew up in the East End of London, England. Dr Brotherton gained his doctorate in Sociology in 1992 and began work on street gang subcultures at UC Berkeley in the same year. In 1994, Dr Brotherton came to John Jay College of Criminal Justice at CUNY, where his research on youth resistance, marginalization and gangs led to the Street Organization Project in 1997. He has received research grants from both private and public agencies and has published widely in journals, books, newspapers and magazines. Dr Brotherton edits the Public Criminology book series at Columbia University Press and was named Critical Criminologist of the Year in 2011. He is currently Professor of Sociology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Gangs and the Community - History From Below 2. Divergent
Gazes: From Humanism to Hobbesian Positivism and Social Reproduction 3.
Gangs and Situated Resistance: Agency, Structure, Culture and Politics 4.
Studying the Gang Critically 5. Imagining Gangs: From Folk Devils to
Objects of Desire 6. Reflections From the Field 7. The Need For A Critical
Gang Studies 8. Conclusion Appendix: Cultural Criminology and its
Practices: a Dialogue Between the Theorist and the Street Researcher, Jock
Young and David C. Brotherton.