Mohammed Qasim, Colin Webster

British Pakistanis and Desistance (eBook, ePUB)

Poverty, Prison and Identity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the lives of first and second generation British Pakistani young adult men and those approaching middle age, who offend or have offended, and the experiences of their fathers bringing them up in a de-industrialised city, this book examines the influence of social relations on their moves toward and away from crime.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003811060
• Artikelnr.: 69175534

Autorenporträt

Mohammed Qasim is a visiting fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics, UK.

Colin Webster is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: British Pakistanis and desistance 2. Overcoming challenges
conducting ethnographic research with young British Pakistani Muslim
Offenders 3. A political economy of desistance 4. The Boys: Islamic
identity, prison and desistence 5. The drug dealers: entrepreneurial
criminality 6. The ex-rioters: long-term consequences of early imprisonment
7. Fathers and sons: intergenerational effects of deindustrialisation in
Bradford 8. Understanding factors contributing to heroin use among British
Pakistanis 9. Discussion and conclusion