Youth Street Gangs : A Critical Appraisal (Hardcover, 2 ed)

Introduction, 1. Gangs and the Community: History from Below, 2. Divergent Gazes: From Humanism to Hobbesian Positivism and Social Reproduction, 3. Gangs and Situated Resistance: Agency, Structure, Culture and Politics, 4.?Studying the Gang Critically, 5.Imagining Gangs: From Folk Devils to Objects of Desire, 6.Reflections From the Field, 7. The Need for a Critical Gang Studies, 8. Gang Interventionism (Part 1): Credible Messengers and the Neo-Liberal Imagination of Anti-violence Models, 9. Gang Interventionism (Part II): The Prison Life of Antonio Fernandez and the Making of a Gang Intervention, 10.Gang Interventionism (Part III): Gang Legalization in Ecuador, 11. Conclusion, 12.?Appendix: Cultural Criminology and its Practices: A Dialogue Between the Theorist and the Street Researcher