Reluctant Gangsters : The Changing Face of Youth Crime

ISBN-13: 9781843923657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 176 str.

John Pitts

Opis

Presents an account of the emergence, nature and impact of armed youth gangs in an East London Borough. This book describes the challenges these armed young men and women pose to their communities, those charged with preventing crime and those struggling to vouchsafe 'community safety'.

Spis treści

1. Things have changed  2. The obscure object of investigation  3. Thinking about gangs  4. Why here? Why now?  5. From blag to business  6. We are family: gang cultures  7. Reluctant gangsters  8. Living in a neo-liberal gangland  9. If every child mattered

O autorze

Pitts, John