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Informationen zum Autor Barry Goldson holds the Charles Booth Chair of Social Science at the University of Liverpool where he was previously Professor of Criminology and Social Policy. He is the founding editor of Youth Justice: An International Journal. Klappentext Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'. Comprising a series of essays from leading national and international researchers, this book subjects such claims to rigorous critical scrutiny. It provides a challenging and authoritative account of complex questions pertaining to urban youth identities, crime and social order. Zusammenfassung Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'. Comprising a series of essays from leading national and international researchers, this book subjects such claims to rigorous critical scrutiny. It provides a challenging and authoritative account of complex questions pertaining to urban youth identities, crime and social order. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Perpetual Novelty: Youth, Modernity and Historical Amnesia 2. Youth Gangs and Late-Victorian Society3. 'It's Just an Area – Everybody Represents It': Exploring Young People's Territorial Behaviour in British Cities4. Collateral Damage: Territory and Policing in an English Gang City5. Place, Territory and Young People's Identity in the 'New' Northern Ireland6. Beyond Dichotomy: Towards and Explanation of Young Women's Involvement in Violent Street Gangs7. In Search of the 'Shemale' Gangster 8. Young People and 'Weaponisation'9. Mercenary Territory: Are Youth Gangs Really a Problem?10. Gangland Britain: Realities, Fantasies and Industry 11. Gangs and Transnationalism
