Youth Crime And Youth Culture In The Inner City

Author : Bill Sanders
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134256037

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Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City by Bill Sanders Pdf

Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City offers an interpretive account of juvenile delinquency within the modern inner city, an environment which is characterized by a long history of social deprivation and high rates of crime. A wide range of topics are explored, such as young people's motivation for, frequency of, and attitudes towards, a variety of illegal behaviors, such as street robbery, burglary, theft, drug use, drug selling and violence. Why do young people commit these offences? Who do they commit them against? How do they feel afterwards? This book attempts to answer these important theoretical questions, utilizing ethnographic research collected over a seven year period and based around the London inner city borough of Lambeth.

Author : Mercer L. Sullivan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501717697

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"Getting Paid" by Mercer L. Sullivan Pdf

The working class in New York City was remade in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1820s a substantial majority of city artisans were native-born; by the 1850s three-quarters of the city's laboring men and women were immigrants. How did the influx of this large group of young adults affect the city's working class? What determined the texture of working-class life during the antebellum period? Richard Stott addresses these questions as he explores the social and economic dimensions of working-class culture. Working-class culture, Stott maintains, is grounded in the material environment, and when work, population, consumption, and the uses of urban space change as rapidly as they did in the mid-nineteenth century, culture will be transformed. Using workers' first-person accounts—letters, diaries, and reminiscences—as evidence, and focusing on such diverse topics as neighborhoods, diet, saloons, and dialect, he traces the rise of a new, youth-oriented working-class culture. By illuminating the everyday experiences of city workers, he shows that the culture emerging in the 1850s was a culture clearly different from that of native-born artisans of an earlier period and from that of the middle class as well.

Author : Cyndi Banks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780415781237

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Youth, Crime and Justice by Cyndi Banks Pdf

Youth, Crime and Justice encourages readers to explore the connections between social, political, economic and cultural conditions and juvenile crime. It clearly examines all the important comparative and transnational research studies for each topic. Throughout, appropriate qualitative studies are used to provide context and explain the theories in practice. This accessible and innovative textbook will be an indispensable resource for senior undergraduates and postgraduates in criminology, criminal justice and sociology.

Author : Robert L. Woodson,American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005440857

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Youth Crime and Urban Policy by Robert L. Woodson,American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Pdf

Author : Frank van Gemert,Dana Peterson,Inger-Lise Lien
Publisher : Willan
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134003716

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Street Gangs, Migration Ethnicity by Frank van Gemert,Dana Peterson,Inger-Lise Lien Pdf

This book is the third publication from the Eurogang Network, it provides a unique insight into the influence of migration on local gang formation and development, paying particular attention to the importance of ethnicity. The book also explores the challenges that migration and ethnicity pose for responding effectively to the growth of such gangs, particularly in areas where public discourse on such issues is restricted.

Author : Gunter, Anthony
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447322894

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Race, gangs and youth violence by Gunter, Anthony Pdf

This book aims to challenge current thinking about serious youth violence and gangs, and their racialisation by the media and the police. Written by an expert with over 14 years’ experience in the field, it brings together research, theory and practice to influence policy. Placing gangs and urban violence in a broader social and political economic context, it argues that government-led policy and associated funding for anti-gangs work is counter-productive. It highlights how the street gang label is unfairly linked by both the news-media and police to black (and urban) youth street-based lifestyles/cultures and friendship groups, leading to the further criminalisation of innocent black youth via police targeting. The book is primarily aimed at practitioners, policy makers, academics as well as those community-minded individuals concerned about youth violence and social justice.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : PURD:32754071550747

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Youth Culture and Violence by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Shane Blackman,Michelle Kempson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317549727

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The Subcultural Imagination by Shane Blackman,Michelle Kempson Pdf

The Subcultural Imagination discusses young adults in subcultures and examines how sociologists use qualitative research methods to study them. Through the application of the ideas of C. Wright Mills to the development of theory-reflexive ethnography, this book analyses the experiences of young people in different subcultural settings, as well as reflecting on how young people in subcultures interact in the wider context of society, biography and history. From Cuba to London, and Bulgaria to Asia, this book delves into urban spaces and street corners, young people’s parties, gigs, BDSM fetish clubs, school, the home, and feminist zines to offer a picture of live sociology in practice. In three parts, the volume explores: history, biography and subculture; practising reflexivity in the field; epistemologies, pedagogies and the subcultural subject. The book offers cutting edge theory and rich empirical research on social class, gender and ethnicities from both established and new researchers across diverse disciplinary backgrounds. It moves the subcultural debate beyond the impasse of the term’s relevance, to one where researchers are fully engaged with the lives of the subcultural subjects. This innovative edited collection will appeal to scholars and students in the areas of sociology, youth studies, media and cultural studies/communication, research methods and ethnography, popular music studies, criminology, politics, social and cultural theory, and gender studies.

Author : Peter Leese
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230208360

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Britain Since 1945 by Peter Leese Pdf

Britain since 1945 is an ideal introductory text for students of British Studies, cultural studies and modern British history. Assuming no prior knowledge, Leese offers students of all backgrounds both the essential chronological grounding and vital insight into the issues of identity necessary for a full understanding of contemporary Britain.

Author : Zhanguo Liu,T. Wing Lo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000527506

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Understanding Crime in Villages-in-the-City in China by Zhanguo Liu,T. Wing Lo Pdf

Rapid urbanization of economic zones in China has resulted in a special social phenomenon: "villages-in-the-city." Underdeveloped villages are absorbed during the expansion of urban areas, while retaining their rustic characteristics. Due to the rural characteristics of these areas, social security is much lower compared with the urbanized city. This book uses Tang Village, a remote area in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, as an example to establish a comprehensive analytical framework by integrating existing crime theories in analyzing villages-in-the-city. The analysis covers the community, individual, and macro levels to detail the diverse social and behavioral factors causing crime at multiple levels. First, a brief history of the urbanization process of Tang Village is provided to establish how urban planning contributed to the issues in the village today. The authors go on to explain how socially disorganized communities dictate the crime hotspots and the common types of crime. The book examines other risk factors that may contribute to the level of crime such as weak social controls, building density, and floating populations of poor working-class migrants. The routine activities of victims, offenders, and guardians are examined. The book concludes with the current trends in the social structure within the villages-in-the-city and their expected outcome after urbanization.

Author : Karen Evans
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847870681

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Crime Prevention by Karen Evans Pdf

How do we reduce and prevent crime? This is a question with which governments, academics and criminal justice professionals have been grappling for decades. Crime Prevention explores the legislative developments, policy changes and practical strategies that have been put in place in recent years in an attempt to manage the level of crime in our society. The book also assesses how governments' approaches to serious crime, the war on terror, human rights and race and immigration policies have influenced ideas about community safety and crime prevention. It offers a handy glossary, along with suggestions for further reading, in order to enhance understanding of critical issues. Accessible and compelling, this book is essential reading for students of criminology, criminal justice and social policy. It is also an indispensable analytical tool for professionals working within the criminal justice arena.

Author : John Pitts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134022267

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Reluctant Gangsters by John Pitts Pdf

This book provides an account of the emergence, nature and impact of armed youth gangs in an East London Borough over the last decade. It describes the challenges these armed young men and women pose to their communities, those charged with preventing crime and those struggling to vouchsafe 'community safety'. While the focus of the book is 'local', the processes it outlines and the effects it chronicles have both a national and international relevance. It argues that the main reason behind the emergence of the armed youth gang has been the coalesence of two previously discreet socially deviant groups; the rowdy, episodically criminal, adolescent peer group on the one hand and the locally-based organized criminal network on the other. The book analyses the impact of the globalisation of the drugs trade and the consequent shift in the focus of local organized crime from the 'blag' to the 'business'. It also discusses how socio-economic and cultural factors, as well as family and neighbourhood histories and loyalties and localized racial antagonisms all play their part in the emergence of the armed youth gang.

Author : Jonathan Ilan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137028600

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Understanding Street Culture by Jonathan Ilan Pdf

How do poverty, youth and crime relate to the concept of being 'cool'? Jonathan Ilan presents a unique, theoretically informed overview of street culture in various parts of the world – its origins, functions, manifestations and appeal – examining both its bearing on criminal lifestyles and on the cultivation of 'cool.' Drawing on contemporary research and original examples to evidence new ways of thinking about street culture - from the favelas of Brazil to housing projects in the USA - the text locates street culture within its particular social, cultural and economic contexts. Covering diverse subjects from brutal violence to contemporary fashion it explores the ways in which street culture is intertwined with processes of social exclusion and inclusion. An in-depth and even-handed guide to understanding the practices, styles and struggles associated with a particular section of the socio-economically disadvantaged, this text stands as an invaluable resource for students and academics across a range of disciplines, including youth studies, urban studies, criminology, sociology, cultural studies and geography.

Author : Jennifer Tilton
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814783317

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Dangerous or Endangered? by Jennifer Tilton Pdf

How do you tell the difference between a “good kid” and a “potential thug”? In Dangerous or Endangered?, Jennifer Tilton considers the ways in which children are increasingly viewed as dangerous and yet, simultaneously, as endangered and in need of protection by the state. Tilton draws on three years of ethnographic research in Oakland, California, one of the nation’s most racially diverse cities, to examine how debates over the nature and needs of young people have fundamentally reshaped politics, transforming ideas of citizenship and the state in contemporary America. As parents and neighborhood activists have worked to save and discipline young people, they have often inadvertently reinforced privatized models of childhood and urban space, clearing the streets of children, who are encouraged to stay at home or in supervised after-school programs. Youth activists protest these attempts, demanding a right to the city and expanded rights of citizenship. Dangerous or Endangered? pays careful attention to the intricate connections between fears of other people’s kids and fears for our own kids in order to explore the complex racial, class, and gender divides in contemporary American cities.

Author : Chris Crowther-Dowey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137285171

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An Introduction to Criminology and Criminal Justice by Chris Crowther-Dowey Pdf

Assuming no prior knowledge, this text provides a clear and user-friendly introduction to the key definitions and issues of crime. With an unrivalled combination of scope plus introductory pitch, this is a one-stop shop for undergraduates taking their first modules in criminology and criminal justice.