Not Just Another Thug

ISBN-13: 9783838302348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 120 str.

Robert Henry

Opis

This study is a qualitative analysis that focuses on how agencies in Saskatoon define youth gang activities and behaviours. The agencies involved constitute community based organizations, permanent and part-time holding residences, justice and city officials. Grounded theory analysis was utilized to maintain the original interviewees own voices from interviews to the final product. The final analysis is divided into three sections that focus on: characteristics of Saskatoon youth gangs, implications of defining, and programming. By analyzing these themes we begin to see that defining youth gangs becomes a very political issue and that agencies who work with youth have difficulty in coming to terms in creating a common definition or criteria to assess youth gangs for Saskatoon.

O autorze

Henry, Robert
Robert Henry has a B.Ed and an M.Ed from the University of Saskatchewan. For the past eight years he has been trying to understand how community agencies define and assess youth gangs, and how these definitions and criteria are used to create prevention, intervention,and suppression programs designed for youth gangs.