Who You Claim - Performing Gang Identity in School and on the Streets

Klappentext In this carefully researched ethnographic account! Robert Garot provides rich descriptions and compelling stories to demonstrate that gang identity is a carefully coordinated performance with many nuanced rules of style and presentation! and that gangs! like any other group or institution! must be constantly performed into bein Zusammenfassung The color of clothing! the width of shoe laces! a pierced ear! certain brands of sneakers! the braiding of hair have long been seen as indicators of gang involvement. The author provides rich descriptions and stories to demonstrate that gang identity is a carefully coordinated performance with many nuanced rules of style and presentation.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Garot
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2010
• EAN: 9780814732120
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-3212-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Alternative Criminology; Alternative Criminology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Verbrechen und Kriminologie (Kriminalistik)