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The Gang and Beyond: Interpreting Violent Street Worlds
S. Hallsworth
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Description for The Gang and Beyond: Interpreting Violent Street Worlds
Paperback. This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at the heart of sexual violence, mass shooting and control of the illegal drugs trade and examining how better we might understand the violence of the street and the organisations that inhabit it. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFFE; JKVC; JKVJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at the heart of sexual violence, mass shooting and control of the illegal drugs trade and examining how better we might understand the violence of the street and the organisations that inhabit it.
This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at the heart of sexual violence, mass shooting and control of the illegal drugs trade and examining how better we might understand the violence of the street and the organisations that inhabit it.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
282g
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137358097
SKU
V9781137358097
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Ref
99-15
About S. Hallsworth
Simon Hallsworth is Professor of Sociology and Head of the School of Applied Social Sciences, University Campus Suffolk, UK. He has written extensively on punishment in modern society, the local politics of crime and community safety and more recently violent street worlds. His research interests include street violence and informal organisations, structural violence and the role of the state, penal ... Read more
Reviews for The Gang and Beyond: Interpreting Violent Street Worlds
"The 'gang' has become a magical word used to explain away crime, riots, sexual assault, drug dealing and almost every manifestation of violence in our society. Simon Hallsworth's book is a devastating critique: iconoclastic, hard hitting, and amusing. Read it." - Jock Young, John Jay College, City University of New York, USA and author of The Criminological Imagination ... Read more