Alistair Fraser

Gangs & Crime

Critical Alternatives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Alistair 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.

Produktdetails

• Key Approaches to Criminology
• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd / Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781473911901
• ISBN-10: 1473911907
• Artikelnr.: 48043801

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Defining
Chapter Two: Researching Gangs
Chapter Three: Histories of Gangs
Chapter Four: Conceptualising Gangs
Chapter Five: Social Harm Perspectives
Chapter Six: Feminist Perspectives
Chapter Seven: Cultural Perspectives
Chapter Eight: Gangs and Globalisation
Chapter Nine: Decentring the World of Gangs
Chapter Ten: Responding to the Global Gang
Chapter Eleven: Conclusion: Beyond the Gang?

Rezensionen

This is a comprehensive and engaging examination of gangs and crime. Drawing on a range of critical perspectives, this book enhances the existing gang literature by exploring the development of gangs in the UK context. It does a great job of consolidating existing literature and theoretical perspectives in a critical and well written manner, which is both easy to access and compelling. This is a 'must add' textbook for criminology and youth justice undergraduate reading lists.

Andrew Wooff, Lecturer in Criminology