A reputational extravaganza? The role of the urban street gang in the riots in London

Harding, Simon

doi:10.1080/09627251.2012.671001

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“…There is a need to reframe these contemporary narratives to access greater insight and advance debate, not least for practitioners as current tropes appear to offer little when translated into policy. The reframing is undertaken utilising social field theory (Bourdieu, 1990) and street capital theory (Harding, 2012, 2014; Sandberg and Pederson, 2011) which are summarised below.…”

Section: Contemporary Narratives On Knife Crimementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Each interviewee was a weapon-carrier. Additional quotes are drawn from my Doctoral research into street gangs in south London (Harding, 2012). The definition of gang adopted was that of the Centre for Social Justice (2009):A relatively durable, predominantly street-based group of young people who (1) see themselves (and are seen by others) as a discernible group, (2) engage in a range of criminal activity and violence, (3) identify with or lay claim over territory, (4) have some form of identifying structural feature, and (5) are in conflict with other, similar, gangs.…”

Section: Locating the Voices Of The Social Field Of The Street Gangmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hierarchal position is determined by the acquisition, presentation and retention of street capital (Harding, 2012, 2014; Sandberg and Pederson, 2011) which operates as a recognised currency among actors. Criminal and social activity generates street capital through which actors demonstrate skills in ‘The Game’, for example, use of a knife.…”

Section: The Street Gang As a Social Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Getting to the Point? Reframing Narratives on Knife Crime

Harding¹

2020

Youth Justice

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Amid rising public concern of knife-enabled crime, this article seeks to review and reframe the contemporary debates on knife crime which remain tied to concepts of fear, protection and fashion. Concepts of social field theory and street capital theory have much to offer in reframing a more contemporary narrative. Through such analysis, knife crime can be redefined as a logical response to the unpredictable asymmetrics of the social field, offering mechanisms for agency and control while providing both a pressure release and opportunity to demonstrate authenticity in ‘The Game’.

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Section: Contemporary Narratives On Knife Crimementioning

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Section: Locating the Voices Of The Social Field Of The Street Gangmentioning

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Getting to the Point? Reframing Narratives on Knife Crime

Harding¹

2020

Youth Justice

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“…Knife crime is only partially understood in terms of who carries knives and why (Eades 2006). According to Harding (2012), prevailing cultural norms govern weapon choice and purpose. The threat of violence with a weapon is a method of coercion to facilitate compliance (Kleck 1991), but at the same time it may symbolise resistance and paradoxically additional marginalisation.…”

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Weapon-Carrying Among Young Men in Glasgow: Street Scripts and Signals in Uncertain Social Spaces

2016

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Our work contributes through a cultural criminological perspective to a contextualised knowledge of street violence and its constructed meanings; uncertainty, familiarity and strangeness in spaces of urban disadvantage as perceived by Scottish white youths are examined. Youth criminal and antisocial behaviour associated with knifecarrying is widely reported and structures political and media discourses which classify street culture. In our article we argue that a particular symbolic construction of social space, as experienced and constructed by weapon-carrying young white men in Glasgow, informs the landscape of violence judged in terms of official statistics and fear of crime. Signal crime theory as a particular type of cultural criminology affords insights about why weapons are carried. Links with a hierarchical codification of consumer culture inform the findings and resonate with the penetration of capitalism in the lives of the marginalised street youth. Cultural Criminology Cultural criminology engages with the ontological fragility of late-modernity, structural inequality, uncertainty, and how these haunt the included and excluded, impacting their fear and vindictiveness (Ferrell and Hayward 2014). A politics of meaning-making

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“…The data in fact refers to the percentage of those charged, and, consequently, it does not necessarily reflect the proportion or true demographics of those who may have taken part in the riots-who may not have been identified (as most arrests were conducted only after the riots). Nonetheless, this remained a key message in the media, largely reinforced by the framing of rioters as mindless thugs and criminals, and also sustained by sporadic suggestions that some gangs may have initiated the rioting in London (Harding 2012). 31…”

Section: Constructions Of Suspicion and Riskiness In Emergent Investimentioning

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Emergent Policing Practices: Urban space securitisation in the aftermath of the Manchester 2011 riots

Pieri

2013

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This paper looks at the emergent policing practices deployed in the immediate aftermath of the recent UK riots in Manchester in August 2011. The paper critically discusses the police’s own use of social media for identification and apprehension of suspects, and in proactive policing. It problematises the increased police reliance on a set of technologies, databases and networked analytics – from CCTV and forensic DNA technologies to Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems used to deploy real time urban exclusion zones. The paper highlights some of the key complexities and ambiguities generated by the integration of such technologies and practices, and reflects on the resulting embedding of specific constructions of suspicion and riskiness in the investigation and prevention of crime and disorder

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A reputational extravaganza? The role of the urban street gang in the riots in London

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

Getting to the Point? Reframing Narratives on Knife Crime

Getting to the Point? Reframing Narratives on Knife Crime

Weapon-Carrying Among Young Men in Glasgow: Street Scripts and Signals in Uncertain Social Spaces

Emergent Policing Practices: Urban space securitisation in the aftermath of the Manchester 2011 riots

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