Copyright page; Contents; Figures and tables; About the author; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Things have changed; Chapter 2 The obscure object of investigation; Chapter 3 Thinking about gangs; Chapter 4 Why here? Why now?; Chapter 5 From a blag to a business; Chapter 6 We are family: gang cultures; Chapter 7 Reluctant gangsters; Chapter 8 Living in neo-liberal gangland; Chapter 9 If every child mattered; References; Index
Summary
This book provides an account of the emergence, nature and impact of armed youth gangs in an East London Borough over the last decade. It describes the challenges these armed young men and women pose to their communities, those charged with preventing crime and those struggling to vouchsafe 'community safety'. While the focus of the book is 'local', the processes it outlines and the effects it chronicles have both a national and international relevance. It argues that the main reason behind the emergence of the armed youth gang has been the coalesence of two previously discreet socially devian
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-172) and index
