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Drawing on extensive life-history interviews with serious violent
offenders, this book offers a unique socio-historical analysis of
gang membership and gang evolution in Glasgow, Scotland's largest
city. The book chronicles the lives of young men in and around
Glasgow from early childhood to present day and examines the lived
experience of family, friendship, community, and crime. It
demonstrates how street reputations are won and lost and how gang
membership is not a single event but an experiential process of
offending, victimisation, consensus, and conflict. The book follows
the young men's descent into knife crime and street violence and
the impact of imprisonment on their life chances. Detailed
narratives capture how they individually and collectively
transitioned from street violence to profit-driven organised crime,
before eventually disengaging from gangs and desisting from
offending. The book concludes with an in-depth discussion of the
evolution of gangs and organised crime in the 21st century and in
the inner-workings of Scotland's marketplace for illegal goods and
services, with implications for police, practitioners, and
policymakers. A page-turner from start to finish, Scotlands' Gang
Members is a truly unique contribution to knowledge about gangs and
crime, written to high academic standards but readable and
accessible to all.
Drawing on extensive life-history interviews with serious violent
offenders, this book offers a unique socio-historical analysis of
gang membership and gang evolution in Glasgow, Scotland's largest
city. The book chronicles the lives of young men in and around
Glasgow from early childhood to present day and examines the lived
experience of family, friendship, community, and crime. It
demonstrates how street reputations are won and lost and how gang
membership is not a single event but an experiential process of
offending, victimisation, consensus, and conflict. The book follows
the young men's descent into knife crime and street violence and
the impact of imprisonment on their life chances. Detailed
narratives capture how they individually and collectively
transitioned from street violence to profit-driven organised crime,
before eventually disengaging from gangs and desisting from
offending. The book concludes with an in-depth discussion of the
evolution of gangs and organised crime in the 21st century and in
the inner-workings of Scotland's marketplace for illegal goods and
services, with implications for police, practitioners, and
policymakers. A page-turner from start to finish, Scotlands' Gang
Members is a truly unique contribution to knowledge about gangs and
crime, written to high academic standards but readable and
accessible to all.
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On Gangs (Paperback)
Scott H. Decker, David C Pyrooz, James A. Densley
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R1,246
Discovery Miles 12 460
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Gangs are multifaceted and varied, so any attempt to understand
them cannot be restricted to a singular approach. On Gangs provides
a diverse and comprehensive survey of the available theories for
understanding this social issue as well as the broad range of
responses to it. The authors look at the many influences on gangs'
operation, growth, prevention, and enforcement. The authors provide
different criminological, psychological, and sociological
approaches to gang studies, including interviews with past and
current gang members. On Gangs presents the core issues for
understanding gangs, including emerging topics like prison gangs,
gender and gangs, and international gangs. There is also a focus on
policing, legislation, and punishment. Weaving together research
and policy findings to address the causes, contexts, and
consequences of gangs, the authors address topics including
joining, resisting, and leaving gangs, and how gangs operate in
communities and institutions. An authoritative and sweeping tour of
gang scholarship, On Gangs showcases the critical evidence-based
solutions in prevention, enforcement, legislation, and
intervention. The authors seek to answer the question: How do we
effectively deal with gangs and gang membership?
This brief sheds light on evolving drug markets and the county
lines phenomenon in the British context. Drawing upon empirical
research gathered in the field between 2012-2019 across two sites,
Scotland's West Coast and Merseyside in England, this book adopts a
grounded approach to the drug supply model, detailing how drugs are
purchased, sold and distributed at every level of the supply chain
at both sites. The authors conducted interviews with practitioners,
offenders, ex-offenders and those members of the general public
most effected by organised crime. The research explores how drug
markets have continued to evolve, accumulating in the phenomenon
that is county lines. It explores how such behavior has gradually
become ever more intertwined with other forms of organised criminal
activity. Useful for researchers, policy makers, and law
enforcement officials, this brief recommends a rethinking of
current reactive policing strategies.
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On Gangs (Hardcover)
Scott H. Decker, David C Pyrooz, James A. Densley
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R3,265
Discovery Miles 32 650
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Gangs are multifaceted and varied, so any attempt to understand
them cannot be restricted to a singular approach. On Gangs provides
a diverse and comprehensive survey of the available theories for
understanding this social issue as well as the broad range of
responses to it. The authors look at the many influences on gangs'
operation, growth, prevention, and enforcement. The authors provide
different criminological, psychological, and sociological
approaches to gang studies, including interviews with past and
current gang members. On Gangs presents the core issues for
understanding gangs, including emerging topics like prison gangs,
gender and gangs, and international gangs. There is also a focus on
policing, legislation, and punishment. Weaving together research
and policy findings to address the causes, contexts, and
consequences of gangs, the authors address topics including
joining, resisting, and leaving gangs, and how gangs operate in
communities and institutions. An authoritative and sweeping tour of
gang scholarship, On Gangs showcases the critical evidence-based
solutions in prevention, enforcement, legislation, and
intervention. The authors seek to answer the question: How do we
effectively deal with gangs and gang membership?
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