Thug criminology : a call to action / edited by Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony Gunter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellis, Adam (Lecturer in criminology), editor.

Marques, Olga, editor.

Gunter, Anthony, editor.

EBSCOhost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gangs.

Gang members.

Hoodlums.

Urban violence.

Crime--Sociological aspects.

Crime.

Crime and race.

Criminology.

Medical Subjects:

Criminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 273 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2023]

Contents:

Introduction/ Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony Gunter

Part I: They Don't Give a F**k about Us! Defanging and Decolonizing the Criminological Enterprise

1. Problematizing Traditional Criminological Perspectives on Thugs and Gangs / Olga Marques

2. The White Male Criminological Gaze as Pornography: The Quasi-Sexual Academic Obsession with Black "Gang Bangers" / Anthony Gunter

3. Writing Themselves Out of Research: "Whitemaleness" and the Study of "Gang" Active Young Women/ Clare Choak

4. Somethin' Doesn't Seem Right: A Commentary on the "Scientific Method" and "Gang"Research/ Adam Ellis and Anthony Gunter

Part II: "Getting Over" and Inside the Ivory Tower

5. I Am (Not) What You Say I Am: The Colonizers' "Gang"/ Gregory (Chris) Brown

6. A Black Scholar's Intellectual Journey and Subsequent Perspective on the White Colonial "Gang" / ProjectIan Joseph

7. Good Trouble: Creating Spaces for Criminalized Populations in the Ivory Tower/ Lily Gonzalez, Javier Rodriguez, and Robert Weide

Part III: Word on the Street

8. Shook Ones: An Insider's Perspective on Trauma, PTSD, and the Reenactment of Street-Related Violence/ Adam Elis, Stephanie Belanger, and Luca Berardi

9. (De)Criminalizing the "Code of Silence"-Reflections of a Former "Gangbanger" Turned Academic/ Anthony Hutchinson and Jared Millican

10. The Raid: State Violence and Traumatic Responses in the Lives of Black Women / Melissa McLetchie

11a. Letter from the Streetz: Growing Up in the Gutter / Chad Briand aka Turk

11b. Letter from the Streetz: Don't Interrupt Me / TG

11c. Letter from the Penetentiary: The Change in Me/ Alejandro Vivar

11d. Letter from the Streetz: Dear Hip Hop/ Marcus Singleton aka Iomos Marad

Part IV: Decolonizing the Gang Industry

12. Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority Communities / Anthony Gunter

13. A Violent Cure? Problematizing the "Cure Violence" Initiative / Malte Riemann

14. When the System Harms: An Insider's Perspective on the Negative Socio-psychological Impact of So-Called "Gang Intervention"/ Tammy Tinney

15. Fight Poverty, Fight Crime: A Justice Focused Approach for Toronto/Canada/ Yafet Tewelde and Julet Allen

16. We Make the Path by Walking It: Repairing, Restoring, and Constructing Pathways/ Rick Kelly

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 09, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Thug criminology.

ISBN:

9781487549213

148754765X

1487549210

9781487547653

Publisher Number:

90104117898

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.