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.
Gangs and Globalisation
Gangs and Globalisation
Overview
Chapter 8 provides:
- An introduction to global and comparative criminology, with a particular focus on relationships between globalisation and crime.
- An overview of key concepts that explore the relationship between globalisation and crime.
- An application of these conceptual tools to the study of gangs in a global context.
- A discussion of methodological approaches to gangs in a global context, incorporating challenges with both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Key Terms
- Advanced marginality
- Comparative criminology
- Crimmigration
- Global anomie
- Global city
- Global criminology
- Glocalisation
- Im/mobility
- Migration
- Organised crime
- Precariat
- Security
- Stratification
- Transnational crime
Introduction
The previous three chapters traced a set of alternative approaches to associations between gangs and crime – social harm, feminist and cultural – in an effort ...
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