Routledge International Handbook of Critical Gang Studies is rooted in the instability, inequality and liquidity of the post-industrial era. It understands the gang as a complex and contradictory phenomenon; a socio-historical agent that reflects, responds to and creates a certain structured environment in spaces which are always in flux. International in scope and drawing on a range of sociological, criminological and anthropological traditions, it looks beyond pathological, ahistorical and non-transformative approaches, and considers other important factors that produce the phenomenon,...

Innovative and highly up-to-date: brings together, for the first time, research on different aspects of the interrelations between emotions, the mass media, and society Multidisciplinary and integrative: consolidates research from a variety of disciplines under one unifying conceptual roof International scope: has a pronounced international scope and brings together researchers from Europe, Asia, the US, and Australia Uniqueness: in its approach to combine two obviously intertwined hallmarks of modern societies - the impact of mass media communications on individual as well as public...