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.
Decentring the World of Gangs
Decentring the World of Gangs
Decentring the World of Gangs
Overview
Chapter 9 provides:
- An introduction to recent theoretical developments in Southern and postcolonial criminology, and discussion of their implications for the study of gangs.
- An overview of key ideas from the academic literature on gangs and ‘gang-like’ groups outside the US and Europe.
- A discussion of the contours of gangs in wide-ranging contexts across Latin America, Oceania, Africa and Asia.
- A challenge to existing paradigms of gang research through engagement with alternative disciplinary and cultural geographies of gang research.
Key Terms
- Colonialism
- Counter-colonial criminology
- Demilitarisation
- Iatrogenesis
- Maras
- Methodological nationalism
- Non state actor
- Occidentalism
- Organised armed conflict
- Orientalism
- Paramilitary groups
- Post-conflict
- Postcolonial criminology
- Quasi-institutions
- Southern theory
- Street socialisation
- Theory from the South
Introduction
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