Gangs in the Global City: Alternatives to Traditional Criminology - Softcover

 
9780252073373: Gangs in the Global City: Alternatives to Traditional Criminology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252073371 ISBN 13: 9780252073373
Verlag: Combined Academic Publ., 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Combined Academic Publ.
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252073371
ISBN 13 
9780252073373
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
368
Herausgeber
Hagedorn John M.
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
Niederlande

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