Homeboys, Dope Fiends, Legits, and New Jacks*

Hagedorn, John M.

doi:10.1111/j.1745-9125.1994.tb01152.x

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“…Change, or transitioning to conformity, is a function of increased social capital. Hagedorn's (1994) ethnography found support for the general life-course perspective in an intersectional framework. However, his discussion is limited to a response to Sampson and Laub's (1993:255) question of whether criminal justice policies ''are producing unintended criminogenic effects.''…”

Section: The Life-coursementioning

confidence: 82%

Qualitative Research and Intersectionality

Trahan

2010

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Much of the extant criminological literature on the relationships between race, class, gender, and crime has treated these demographic characteristics as isolated, independent variables. More recent theorizing has called our attention to fact that these constructs are not autonomous. Instead, people's identity lies at the intersection of race, class, and gender and it is the combination of these constructs that often shapes people's experiences with the criminal justice system and other social structures. It is well-documented, however, that purely quantitative methodologies are not well suited to studying intersecionality. The findings of qualitative research have lent a greater understanding to the intersection of race, class, gender, and crime. The appropriateness of certain methodological frameworks and the thematic contributions of qualitative research to intersectionality are discussed.The concept that would give rise to the intersectionality movement first emerged in a critique of the feminist literature. In Ain't I a Woman, bell Hooks (1981) took aim at feminist scholars' proclivity at the time for comparing the discrimination experienced by women under patriarchy to the subjugation of Blacks' in America. This analogy, she stated, implies that all women are white and all Blacks are men. Although the term ''intersectionality'' itself would not appear for eight more years (Crenshaw 1989), hook's work prompted scholars across a range of disciplines to deconstruct race, class, and gender typologies. In particular, the proponents of intersectionality argued that the custom of theorizing and researching race, class, and gender as independent constructs that exert independent influences on outcome variables is not grounded in reality (Baca Zinn and

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Section: The Life-coursementioning

confidence: 82%

Qualitative Research and Intersectionality

Trahan

2010

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“…In other U.S. case studies, Reuter et al (1990) and Hagedorn (1994) provide examples of those working as dealers in the illegal market but who make irregular forays back into legal employment with varying degrees of success. In the UK, this phenomenon might be mirrored in varying ways by those in similar situations in the informal economies that bridge illegal and legal markets and include those involved in mutual assurance of supply and lowor non-profit trading of drugs -"mutual societies" and "trading charities" in the terms used by Dorn et al (1992, 10-13).…”

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Reflections on three decades of research on ‘social supply’ in the UK

2016

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This chapter reviews how forms of friend and acquaintance supply that might be considered less than 'drug dealing proper' are not new and have existed over many years. It reflects on how, over time, views on these types of supply have developed and evolved in concert with changed and changing drug use and supply landscapes in the UK. In particular it considers the shift from some early forms of socially engaged recreational drug use and supply that were often bleeding, culturally, into myriad forms of counter culture and sat, to some degree at least, outside the everyday norm, to the sea change from the 1990s where a relatively normalised context around recreational drug use and some forms of friend/acquaintance supply moved more normatively towards the centre even for some parts of the criminal justice system. Following a consideration of how social supply has evolved over time the chapter culminates with an argument for a broadening of the concept to minimally commercial supply as a somewhat more refined position and that criminal justice approaches to non-commercially orientated supply need a more research evidence based framework for effective understanding and response.

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“…Although CWA has a core group of residents invested in the safety and improvement of their neighborhoods, most areas within its bounds are dominated by violence, decay, and a lack of city services, and do not represent "neighborhood communities" in the conventional middle-class sense (see Inciardi, Horowitz, and Pottieger, 1993 (Cromwell and Olson, 2004; Cromwell, Olson and Avary, 1991; Piquero and Rengert, 1999;Wright and Decker, 1994), robbery and theft (Miller, 1998;Shover and Henderson, 1995;Wright and Decker, 1997), prostitution (e.g., Maher, 1997;Phoenix, 2000), carjacking Topalli and Wright, 2004), drug dealing and drug robbery (Bourgois, 1995;Geter, 1994;Hagedorn, 1994;Jacobs, 1999Jacobs, , 2000Jacobs, , 2006Jacobs et al, 2000;Topalli et al, 2002), crime among homeless youth (e.g., Inciardi, et al, 1993;Tyler and Johnson, 2004), gangs (e.g., Miller, 2001) and street snitching (Rosenfeld, Jacobs, and Wright, 2003).…”

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"Might Not Be a Tomorrow": A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime

Brezina

Tekin

Topalli

2008

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A number of researchers point to the anticipation of early death, or a sense of "futurelessness," as a contributing factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have little reason to delay gratification for the promise of future benefits, as the future itself is discounted. Consequently, these young people tend to pursue high-risk behaviors associated with immediate rewards, including crime and violence. Although existing studies lend empirical support to these arguments and show a statistical relationship between anticipated early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the interpretation of this relationship, the meanings that offenders attach to the prospect of early death, and the causal mechanisms that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a multi-methods approach, involving the analyses of national survey data and in-depth interviews with active street offenders. "MIGHT NOT BE A TOMORROW": A MULTI-METHODS APPROACH TO ANTICIPATED EARLY DEATH AND YOUTH CRIMEPrior criminological research has served to highlight the risks of offending behavior.These risks include a number of long-term negative consequences that may accrue to offenders over the life course, including reduced life chances, poor health, and incarceration (Hagan, 1991(Hagan, , 1997Moffitt, 1993;Robins, 1966; Laub 1993, 1997;Tanner, Davies, and O'Grady, 1999). These risks also include immediate physical dangers-such as injury, paralysis, or death-that exist in the "foreground" of the criminal lifestyle and that may result from crime victim retaliation, attacks by rival offenders, or police action (Dobrin, 2001;Hoffman, 2004;Jacobs, Topalli, and Wright, 2000;McCarthy and Hagan, 2005; Sampson and Lauritsen, 2005;Topalli, Wright, and Fornango, 2002;Tremblay and Paré, 2003).At the same time, criminological research has highlighted the existence of hard-core offenders who appear to be fearless in the face of these dangers (Anderson, 1994(Anderson, , 1999Hoffman, 2004;Jacobs et al., 2000;McCarthy and Hagan, 2005;Topalli, 2005a). This population includes individuals who have experienced stabbings, shootings, or other lifethreatening injuries and yet remain undeterred from a risky and criminal lifestyle (Hoffman, 2004). In the words of one such offender, "I don't give a damn. I don't care what happens really… whether they kill us or we kill them" (Topalli and Wright, 2004: 164).To account for the fearless and uninhibited conduct of some offenders, a number of theorists have underscored the sense of hopelessness and fatalism that is said to pervade economically distressed, high-crime communities (Anderson, 1994(Anderson, , 1999Garbarino et al., 1992;Kitwana, 2002;Lorion and Saltzman, 1993;Wilson and Daly, 1997). When young people believe they have no future, it is argued, they have little to lose by engaging in crime or violence.This argument ...

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Homeboys, Dope Fiends, Legits, and New Jacks*

Cited by 159 publications

References 18 publications

Qualitative Research and Intersectionality

Qualitative Research and Intersectionality

Reflections on three decades of research on ‘social supply’ in the UK

"Might Not Be a Tomorrow": A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime

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