The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Gangs in the UK
This handbook brings together cutting-edge research from key contributors on the rapidly expanding and fast-changing field of UK youth gangs. It examines the contours of the academic debates, describes and explains the origins and evolution of violent street gangs in the UK against a backdrop of glo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Part I: The Evolution of the UK Street Gang
- Chapter 2: Theorising Gangs
- Chapter 3: Reluctant Gangsters ’Revisited
- Chapter 4: County Lines; Dealing in Vulnerability
- Part II: International Comparisons
- Chapter 5: US and UK Gangs: Models, Policy and Practice
- Chapter 6: Gangs and a Global Sociological Imagination
- Chapter 7: Why them?’ ‘Why then?’ ‘Why there?’: The Political Economy of Gangland
- Part III: Nations and Regions
- Chapter 8: Gangs, Gang Evolution and Young People’s Involvement in Drug Supply and Distribution in Scotland
- Chapter 9: Gangs Young People and Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland
- Chapter 10: Youth Gangs in Wales
- Chapter 11: Gangs in Liverpool: Scouse Soldiers init? Urban Street Gangs on Merseyside
- Part IV: Race and Gender
- Chapter 12: Supporting young women affected by gang association and county lines
- Chapter 13: The alchemy of race and rights’: The logic of historicizing the contemporary racialized youth and gang phenomenon
- Chapter 14: Race and Gangs: Towards a Black Criminology
- Chapter 15: Black Lives Matter in Gang Research
- Chapter 16: The Boys
- Chapter 17: The Pakistani Muslim Community, Street Gangs & the Heroin Trade
- Part V: Gangs and the Justice System
- Chapter 18: Policing UK Street Gangs
- Chapter 19: Evidence in Gang-related Prosecutions
- Chapter 20: Gangs in Prisons
- Chapter 21: County Lines and Prisons
- Part VI: Policy and Practice
- Chapter 22: The English Street Gang & Government Policy
- Chapter 23: Youth Work & Gang Violence Reduction
- Chapter 24: Safeguarding, Young People & Gangs
- Chapter 25: The Premier League: Breaking the Cycle of Gang Violence
- Chapter 26: Using Ex-Gang Members as Peer Youth Workers
- Chapter 27: Voices from Gang Affected Communities.