British Pakistanis and Desistance

ISBN-13: 9780367677664 / Twarda / 2023 / 192 str.

Colin (Leeds Metropolitan University) Webster

Opis

Focusing on the lives of first and second generation British Pakistani young adult men and those approaching middle age, who offend or have offended, and the experiences of their fathers bringing them up in a de-industrialised city, this book examines the influence of social relations on their moves toward and away from crime.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: British Pakistanis and desistance 2. Overcoming challenges conducting ethnographic research with young British Pakistani Muslim Offenders 3. A political economy of desistance 4. The Boys: Islamic identity, prison and desistence 5. The drug dealers: entrepreneurial criminality 6. The ex-rioters: long-term consequences of early imprisonment 7. Fathers and sons: intergenerational effects of deindustrialisation in Bradford 8. Understanding factors contributing to heroin use among British Pakistanis 9. Discussion and conclusion

O autorze

Mohammed Qasim is a visiting fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics, UK.

Colin Webster is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, UK.