Gangs in the global city : alternatives to traditional criminology
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Gangs in the global city : alternatives to traditional criminology
University of Illinois Press, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : globalization, gangs, and traditional criminology / John M. Hagedorn
- Gangs, institutions, race, and space : the Chicago School revisited / John M. Hagedorn
- Three pernicious premises in the study of the American ghetto / Loïc J. D. Wacquant
- Globalization and social exclusion : the sociology of vindictiveness and the criminology of transgression / Jock Young
- The global city : one setting for new types of gang work and political culture? / Saskia Sassen
- Observing New Zealand "gangs," 1950-2000 : learning from a small country / Cameron Hazlehurst
- Rapid urbanization, migrant indigenous youth in San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico / John Rus and Diego Vigil
- Female gangs : gender and globalization / Joan W. Moore
- Youth groupings, identity, and the political context : on the significance of extremist youth groupings in Unified Germany / Joachim Kersten
- Gangs and spirituality of liberation / Luis Barrios
- Toward the gang as a social movement / David Brotherton
- Americanization, the third way, and the racialization of youth crime and disorder / John Pitts
- Gangs in late modernity / John M. Hagedorn
- The challenges of gangs in global contexts / James F. Short Jr.
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Description
Although they were originally considered an American phenomenon, gangs today have grown and transformed into global enterprises. Despite these changes, criminologists have not yet reassessed worldwide gangs in terms of the other changes associated with globalization.
John M. Hagedorn aims to correct this oversight by incorporating important theoretical advances in urban political economy and understanding changes in gangs around the world as a result of globalization and the growth of the information economy. Contrary to older conceptions, today's gangs are international, are often institutionalized, and may be explicitly concerned with race and ethnicity. Gangs in the Global City presents the work of an assortment of international scholars that challenges traditional approaches to problems in criminology from many different perspectives and includes theoretical discussions, case studies, and examinations of gang members' identities. The contributors consider gangs not as fundamentally a crime problem but as variable social organizations in poor communities that are transitioning to the new economy.
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