| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Dealing, Music and Youth Violence: Neighbourhood Relational Change, Isolation and Youth Criminality -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- 1 Introduction: Nearly Two Decades of Concern, Yet Young People Are Still Dying -- An overview of the context of knife crime and the efforts to address serious youth violence in the UK -- Neighbourhood research -- Neighbourhood crime: some theoretical underpinnings -- Chapter structure -- 2 The Wider Historical and Social Context of 'Black Criminality' and Youth Violence |
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Racism, resistance and addressing offending behaviour within a changing political climate -- Historical context of migration, deprivation and racism -- New Labour: new focus? -- Serious youth violence and gangs branding -- Understanding the impact of oppression, racism and policy failure on youth safety -- 3 Exploring the Neighbourhood -- Deprivation, population change, diversity and relational change -- The people who make it all happen -- St Mary's young people -- Taking a wider view -- The built environment of the estate -- Local concern and local action |
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4 Localized Disempowerment and the Development of Criminal Cultures -- How council interventions increased the space for a violent street culture to evolve -- St Mary's Estate youth project -- Studio time -- Early signs of youth violence -- A new cooperative approach -- Proposal -- New values, relationships and statuses -- Death, mourning and action -- 5 All Alone: Youth Isolation and the Embedding of a Violent Street Culture -- The emergence of street culture -- Further isolation and the entrenchment of a violent street culture -- Continuation and escalation |
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Professionalizing support, relational breakdown and increased violence -- 6 Studio Time, Drill and the Criminalization of Black Culture -- Drill: the sound of the estate -- The attention economy -- Police crackdowns and criminalization -- Criminal personas or an artistic income stream? -- 7 Separated, Isolated and Unconnected -- Focusing on primary school children and leaving the olders to police enforcement -- Residents standing up for themselves -- Summer play scheme -- Operation Shield -- St Mary's Football Project on the estate |
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Residents rebuilding their confidence and the failure of enforcement -- 8 The New Normal: From Gang Violence to Individualized Danger and Child Criminal Exploitation -- Disconnected simulation -- From gang violence to criminal exploitation and individual risk -- Lowered threshold -- Violence normalization and desensitization -- Criminal exploitation, desensitization and the new drivers of violence -- 9 Learning from the Past or More of the Same -- Shifting to a public health approach to tackling serious youth violence -- Public health approach -- A child first approach within youth justice |
| Summary |
With fascinating ethnographic and interview data, James Alexander explores the disappearance of localised relationships and the rise in youth violence in a South London housing estate. Evaluating the effectiveness of youth work programmes, he considers the impact of the gradual move from neighbourly to professional support for young people |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Youth and violence -- England -- London
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Music and youth -- England -- London
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Drug dealers -- England -- London
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
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Drug dealers
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Music and youth
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Youth and violence
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Sociology & anthropology.
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Politics and Government.
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England -- London
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781529216530 |
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1529216532 |
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9781529216523 |
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1529216524 |
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