Getting Real About Gangs

Hallsworth, Simon; Young, Tara

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“…Essentially YCGs face multiple obstacles including those from within the gang itself. YCG members typically retain a sense of omnipotence and hyper-masculinity (Hallsworth and Young 2004). Pride and hypermasculine identity can also lead to YCG members becoming involved in other criminal activities which are counterproductive to OC, such as violence, intoxication, or taking increasing risks with drug supply and distribution.…”

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An Evolving Gang Model in Contemporary Scotland

McLean

2017

Deviant Behavior

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Young street gangs (YSGs) in Scotland are considered recreational youth outfits bound up in issues of territoriality and protest masculinities. While YSGs occasionally engage in territorial violence they are nonetheless viewed as distinct entities from organised crime (OC). However, following qualitative interviews (n=35) with offenders involved in OC, namely illegal drug supply, the author concludes otherwise and presents evidence which suggests YSGs retain evolving capabilities. The author presents an evolving gang model in which the key sequential stages are outlined as recreational, criminal, and syndicate and argues that, aided by globalisation, gang organisation has become a means for gang business.

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An Evolving Gang Model in Contemporary Scotland

McLean

2017

Deviant Behavior

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“…Metropolitan areas, such as Edinburgh [Bradshaw, 2005], Glasgow [Everard, 2006], Manchester [Mares, 2001; Shropshire and McFarquhar, 2002], London, and Birmingham [Shropshire and McFarquhar, 2002], are especially affected by gang‐related crime, and several additional cities have reported gang‐like activity [Shropshire and McFarquhar, 2002]. However, the “Eurogang paradox,” where authorities in European countries use the stereotype of American gangs to inform their definition of a gang [Klein et al, 2001], has stunted the development of empirical research and as a result, the literature on gangs in Europe, and particularly in the United Kingdom, has only recently begun to emerge [Hallsworth and Young, 2004]. This is unfortunate because research has found overwhelming similarities between European and American gangs [Klein et al, 2006].…”

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Gang involvement: psychological and behavioral characteristics of gang members, peripheral youth, and nongang Youth

Alleyne

Wood

2010

Aggressive Behavior

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“…Debate rages about whether street gangs in British cities are ''shapeless gatherings of peers…or structured groups that coerce 'reluctant gangsters' into their ranks…or the exaggerated…and imaginary creations of academics, police officers, and policy-makers who 'need' gangs in order to justify their very existence'' (Densley 2014;Pitts 2008;Densley and Stevens 2015). Hallsworth and Young (2008) argue violent sub-cultures are not necessarily gangs and violence in the street is not necessarily caused by collective gang behaviour, unsurprisingly he calls for an interpretive stance towards ''violent street worlds'' (Hallsworth 2013). In Brotherton's (2015) study there is a de-coupling of violence from his ethnography of the US street youth gang, a perspective that informs the focus of our theoretical emphasis on weapon-carrying, not gang association or membership as such.…”

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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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Getting Real About Gangs

Cited by 46 publications

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An Evolving Gang Model in Contemporary Scotland

An Evolving Gang Model in Contemporary Scotland

Gang involvement: psychological and behavioral characteristics of gang members, peripheral youth, and nongang Youth

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

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