Real Gangstas - Legitimacy, Reputation, and Violence in the Intergang Environment

Informationen zum Autor Lauger, Timothy R Klappentext For eighteen months! Timothy R. Lauger interviewed and observed a mix of fifty-five gang members! former gang members! and non-gang street offenders. Through this research! Lauger is able to understand and explain the reasons for gang membership! including a chaotic family life! poverty! and the need for violent self-assertion in order to foster the creation of a personal identity. Zusammenfassung For eighteen months! Timothy R. Lauger interviewed and observed a mix of fifty-five gang members! former gang members! and non-gang street offenders. Through this research! Lauger is able to understand and explain the reasons for gang membership! including a chaotic family life! poverty! and the need for violent self-assertion in order to foster the creation of a personal identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Gangs and their environments Joining a gang The dilution narrative: an understanding that some gang members are not "real" The paradox of legitimacy Known in Naptown Teenage gossip and the presentation of self The violent encounter Hope, intervention, and tragedy Appendix: Researching gangs

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Lauger, Timothy R Lauger, Timothy R. Lauger
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.2012
• EAN: 9780813553740
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-5374-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Critical Issues in Crime and S; Critical Issues in Crime and Society; Critical Issues in Crime and S
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories