Summary
Contents
Subject index
This book takes students on a guided tour of the gang phenomenon through history, as well as current representations of gangs in literature and media. It includes: - A detailed global overview of gang culture, covering, amongst others, Glasgow, Chicago, Hong Kong, and Shanghai - A chapter on researching gangs which covers quantitative and qualitative methods - Extra chapter features such as key terms, chapter overviews, study questions and further reading suggestions. Fraser brings together gang-literature and critical perspectives in a refreshingly new way, exploring ‘gangs’ as a social group with a long and fascinating history.
Cultural Perspectives
Cultural Perspectives
Cultural Perspectives
Overview
Chapter 7 provides:
- A critical commentary on traditional approaches to gangs and the media, particularly the concept of ‘moral panic’, in the context of new media.
- An introduction to cultural criminological approaches to gangs and the media, drawing attention to processes such as ‘media loops’.
- An outline of a range of cultural analyses of gangs, drawing on literature, film and TV, music and popular culture.
- A discussion of common themes in cultural representations of gangs, and the impact of these dominant narratives on responses to gangs.
Key Terms
- Authenticity
- Bandit
- Carnival
- Criminalisation
- Cultural criminology
- Deviant leisure
- Edgework
- Fashion
- Folk devils
- Gangsta rap
- Grand Theft Auto
- Hip-hop
- Ideology
- Media loops
- Moral panic
- Moral regulation
- Multi-media
- Outlaw
- Resistance
- Subcultures
- Transgression
- Virtual-real
Introduction
The study of gangs is unavoidably and ...
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