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Gangs in the global city : alternatives to traditional criminology
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Gangs in the global city : alternatives to traditional criminology

Author: John Hagedorn
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John Hagedorn
ISBN: 0252030966 9780252030963 0252073371 9780252073373
OCLC Number: 62897553
Description: viii, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Globalization, gangs, and traditional criminology / John M. Hagedorn -- Part I. Theoretical perspectives: Gangs, institutions, race, and space: the Chicago School revisited / John M. Hagedorn -- Three pernicious premises in the study of the American ghetto / Loïs J.D. Wacquant -- Globalization and social exclusion: the sociology of vindictiveness and the criminology of transgression / Jock Young -- Part II. Spaces of globalization: The global city: one setting for the 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 and migrant indigenous youth in San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico / Jan Rus and Diego Vigil -- Part III. Identities of resistance: 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 -- Part IV. Response to neoliberalism: Toward the gang as a social movement / David C. Brotherton -- Americanization, the third way, and the racialization of youth crime and disorder / John Pitts -- Part V. Conclusion: Gangs in late modernity / John M. Hagedorn -- The challenges of gangs in global contexts / James F. Short, Jr.
Responsibility: edited by John M. Hagedorn.
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