GANGS IN THE GLOBAL CITY: Alternatives to Traditional Criminology
GANGS IN THE GLOBAL CITY: Alternatives to Traditional Criminology
edited by John M. M. Hagedorn contributions by Joachim Kersten, Luis Barrios, David C Brotherton, John Pitts, James F Short Jr., John M. M. Hagedorn, Loic J. D. Wacquant, Jock Young, Saskia Sassen, Cameron Hazlehurst, Jan Rus, Diego Vigil and Joan W Moore
University of Illinois Press, 2006 Cloth: 978-0-252-03096-3 | Paper: 978-0-252-07337-3 Library of Congress Classification HV6437.G354 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 364.1066
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Although they were originally considered an American phenomenon, gangs today have grown and transformed into global enterprises. Despite these changes, criminologists have not yet reassessed worldwide gangs in terms of the other changes associated with globalization.
John M. Hagedorn aims to correct this oversight by incorporating important theoretical advances in urban political economy and understanding changes in gangs around the world as a result of globalization and the growth of the information economy. Contrary to older conceptions, today’s gangs are international, are often institutionalized, and may be explicitly concerned with race and ethnicity. Gangs in the Global City presents the work of an assortment of international scholars that challenges traditional approaches to problems in criminology from many different perspectives and includes theoretical discussions, case studies, and examinations of gang members’ identities. The contributors consider gangs not as fundamentally a crime problem but as variable social organizations in poor communities that are transitioning to the new economy.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
John M. Hagedorn is an associate professor of criminal justice and a Great Cities Institute Fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Forsaking Our Children: Bureaucracy and Reform in the Child Welfare System and other books.
REVIEWS
"This strong mix of fresh ideas offered by top authors in well-written and well-researched commentaries makes this book an important publication."--Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction: Globalization, Gangs, and Traditional
Criminology
John M. Hagedorn
Part I. Theoretical Perspectives
1. Gangs, Institutions, Race, and Space: The Chicago
School
Revisited
John M. Hagedorn
2. Three Pernicious Premises in the Study of the
American Ghetto
Lo¿c J. D. Wacquant
3. Globalization and Social Exclusion: The Sociology of
Vindictiveness and the Criminology of
Transgression
Jock Young
Part II. Spaces of Globalization
4. The Global City: One Setting for New Types of Gang
Work and
Political Culture?
Saskia Sassen
5. Observing New Zealand "Gangs," 1950-2000: Learning
from a
Small Country
Cameron Hazlehurst
6. Rapid Urbanization, Migrant Indigenous Youth, and
Gangs:
The Case of San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico
John Rus and Diego Vigil
Part III. Identities of Resistance
7. Female Gangs: Gender and Globalization
Joan W. Moore
8. Youth Groupings, Identity, and the Political
Context--On the
Significance of Extremist Youth Groupings in
Unified Germany
Joachim Kersten
9. Gangs and Spirituality
Rev. Luis Barrios
Part IV. Response to Neo-liberalism
10. Toward the Gang as a Social Movement
David Brotherton
11. Americanisation, the Third Way, and the
Racialisation of
Youth Crime and Disorder
John Pitts
12. Gangs in Late Modernity
John M. Hagedorn
Part V. Conclusion
13. The Challenges of Gangs in Global Contexts
James F. Short Jr.
Index