Urban Legends - Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City

Informationen zum Autor Alistair Fraser is Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology, University of Glasgow, where he is also Associate Director (Internationalisation) of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research and Convenor of Postgraduate Criminology. He holds an MSc in Criminology from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Glasgow. His research centres on issues of youth, crime and globalisation, with a particular focus on youth gangs. He has carried out fieldwork in Glasgow, Chicago and Hong Kong. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Shifting Definitions 3: A Global Sociological Imagination 4: City as Lens 5: Best Laid Schemes 6: Street Habitus 7: Redundant Hardmen 8: Learning to Leisure 9: Generations of Gangs 10: Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Fraser, Alistair Fraser
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9780198728610
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872861-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology; Clarendon Studies in Criminolo; Clarendon Studies in Criminology; Clarendon Studies in Criminolo
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Social issues & processes, Violence in society, Social and ethical issues, Age groups: adolescents, Street crime, Violence and abuse in society, Street Crime / Gun Crime