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Urban Legends - Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City (Hardcover)
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Urban Legends - Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City (Hardcover)
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
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As the youth gang phenomenon becomes an important and sensitive
public issue, communities from Los Angeles to Rio, Cape Town to
London are facing the reality of what such violent groups mean for
their children and young people. Complex dangers and instabilities,
as well as high levels of public fear and anger, fuel an
amplification of anxious public and political rhetoric in relation
to gangs, in which the stereotype of the American street-gang - a
ruthless, hierarchical, street-based criminal organisation capable
of corrupting youth and fracturing communities - looms large. Set
against this backdrop, Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the
Post-Industrial City tells a unique and powerful story of young
people, gang identity, and social change in post-industrial
Glasgow, challenging the perceptions of gangs as a novel,
universal, or pathological phenomenon. Though territorial gangs
have been reported in Glasgow for over a century, with striking
continuities over this time, there are similarities with
street-based groups elsewhere. Using this similarity as the
foundation, the book goes on to argue that Glaswegian gangs have a
specific historical trajectory that is particular to the city.
Drawing on four years of varied ethnographic fieldwork in Langview,
a deindustrialised working-class community, the book spotlights the
everyday experiences and understandings of gangs for young people
growing up in the area, reasoning that - for some - gang
identification represents a root of identity and a route to
masculinity, in a post-industrial city that has little space for
them.
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