Global Gangs : Street Violence Across the World

ISBN 10: 0816691495 / ISBN 13: 9780816691494

Editore: University of Minnesota Press, 2014

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• Titolo: Global Gangs : Street Violence Across the World
• Editore: University of Minnesota Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0816691495
• ISBN 13: 9780816691494
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

Gangs, often associated with brutality and senseless destructive violence, have not always been viewed as inherently antagonistic. The first studies of gangs depicted them as alternative sources of order in urban slums where the state&;s authority was lacking, and they have subsequently been shown to be important elements in some youth life cycles. Despite their proliferation there is little consensus regarding what constitutes a gang. Used to denote phenomena ranging from organized crime syndicates to groups of youths who gather spontaneously on street corners, even the term &;gang&; is ambiguous.

Global Gangs offers a greater understanding of gangs through essays that investigate gangs spanning across nations, from Brazil to Indonesia, China to Kenya, and from El Salvador to Russia. Volume editors Jennifer M. Hazen and Dennis Rodgers bring together contributors who examine gangs from a comparative perspective, discussing such topics as the role the apartheid regime in South Africa played in the emergence of gangs, the politics behind child vigilante squads in India, the relationship between immigration and gangs in France and the United States, and the complex stigmatization of youths in Mexico caused by the arbitrary deployment of the word &;gang.&;

Featuring an afterword by renowned U.S. gang researcher Sudhir Venkatesh, this volume provides a comprehensive look into the experience of gangs across the world and in doing so challenges conventional notions of identity.

Contributors: Enrique Desmond Arias, George Mason U; José Miguel Cruz, Florida International U; Steffen Jensen, DIGNITY&;Danish Institute Against Torture; Gareth A. Jones, London School of Economics and Political Science; Marwan Mohammed, École Normale Supérieure, Paris; Jacob Rasmussen, Roskilde U; Loren Ryter, U of Michigan; Rustem R. Safin, National Research Technological U, Russia; Alexander L. Salagaev, National Research Technological U, Russia; Atreyee Sen, U of Manchester; Mats Utas, Nordic Africa Institute; Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia U; James Diego Vigil, U of California, Irvine; Lening Zhang, Saint Francis U.

Informazioni sull?autore

Jennifer M. Hazen is a political scientist who has worked with International Crisis Group, the United Nations, the Small Arms Survey, and BAE Systems in support of U.S. Africa Command.

Dennis Rodgers is professor of urban social and political research in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. 

Sudhir Venkatesh is Williams B. Ransford Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and the author of, among several other books, Gang Leader for a Day.