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Youth street gangs : a critical appraisal / David C. Brotherton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brotherton, David, author.
- Series:
- New directions in critical criminology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gangs--United States.
- Gangs.
- Juvenile delinquency--United States.
- Juvenile delinquency.
- At-risk youth--United States.
- At-risk youth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 331 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
- Contents:
- Gangs and the community: history from below
- Divergent gazes: from humanism to Hobbesian positivism and social reproduction
- Gangs and situated resistance: agency, structure, culture and politics
- Studying the gang critically
- Imagining gangs: from folk devils to objects of desire
- Reflections from the field
- The need for a critical gang studies
- Gang interventionism (part 1): credible messengers and the neo-liberal imagination of anti-violence models
- Gang interventionism (part II): the prison life of Antonio Fernandez and the making of a gang intervention
- Gang interventionism (part III): gang legalization in Ecuador.
- Notes:
- First edition published by Routledge 2015.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 02, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Brotherton, David. Youth street gangs
- ISBN:
- 9781040331262
- 1040331262
- 9781040331347
- 1040331343
- 9781032695594
- 1032695595
- Publisher Number:
- 90101894809
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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