Local perspectives in Ending Gang and Youth Violence areas: Perceptions of the nature of urban street gangs

Disley, Emma; Liddle, Mark

doi:10.7249/rr876

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“…They know the legal system, they're using these kids so for the older gang members to say right, we're going to take out the police and do this, that and the other, is only going to (Disley and Liddle 2016). In London, over a third of areas (35%) reported that gangs in their area were more likely to get involved in organized criminal activities compared to two years previously.…”

Section: Gang Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reluctant Gangsters Revisited: The Evolution of Gangs from Postcodes to Profits

Whittaker

Densley

Cheston

et al. 2019

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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The aim of the current study was to understand how gangs have changed in the past ten years since Pitts' (2008) study in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The study undertook interviews with 21 practitioners working on gang-related issues and 10 young people affected by gangs or formerly embedded in them. Two focus groups involving 37 participants from key agencies then explored the preliminary findings and contributed to a conceptualisation of a new operating model of gangs. The study found that local gangs had evolved into more organized and profit-oriented entities than a decade earlier. The new operating model rejected visible signs of gang membership as "bad for business" because they attracted unwanted attention from law enforcement agencies. Faced with a saturated drugs market in London, gangs moved out to capture drugs markets in smaller UK towns in "county lines" activities. This more business-oriented ethos has changed the meaning of both territory and violence.

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Section: Gang Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reluctant Gangsters Revisited: The Evolution of Gangs from Postcodes to Profits

Whittaker

Densley

Cheston

et al. 2019

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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“…The majority of U.K.-based gang research (cf. Batchelor, 2009; Harding, 2014), for example, has presented the female experience as one characterized by “subordination and abuse,” with gang rape often used as a weapon by males and/or social status and enhanced protection offered to young women who engage in sexual activity with their male counterparts (Densley, Davis & Mason, 2013; Disley & Liddle, 2016; Young & Trickett, 2017). This perspective is succinctly captured by HM Government’s (2016) rebranding of their gang strategy from “Ending Gangs and Youth Violence” to “Ending Gang Violence and Exploitation,” and a renewed focus on “contextual safeguarding” of abused young women (Firmin, 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deficit or Credit? A Comparative, Qualitative Study of Gender Agency and Female Gang Membership in Los Angeles and Glasgow

Deuchar

Harding

McLean

et al. 2018

Crime & Delinquency

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To date, there has been a paucity of comparative, qualitative research exploring the nuances of women’s gang involvement beyond the United States. In this article, we seek to address this gap by drawing upon qualitative interviews with small samples of self-nominated female gang members in Los Angeles, California (United States) and Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom). The emerging insights indicated that two key models of entry into the “social field” of the gang emerged in the data: a deficit model entry linked to drugs and debt and a credit model of entry where women were considered to bring social skill, expertise, and agency into the gang. Implications in terms of testable hypotheses for future research as well as for future practice are outlined.

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“…It is also clear that many black girls experience multiple forms of violence and abuse, invariably racially motivated hate crimes and abuse in their lifetimes which is relevant for understanding the context of their sexual exploitation (Firmin, 2017). Research reveals that sexual harassment, teenage relationship abuse, gang rape, sexual violence and physical violence are common facets for black girls living in socially and economically-deprived urban areas affected by serious youth violence (Disley & Liddle 2016;Firmin 2017;Pearce 2009). Furthermore, it has been argued that misogynist popular culture represents black girls as sexually promiscuous and having loose morals, in contrast to Asian young women who are represented as 'mystical ', 'secretive' and 'hidden'.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using an Intersectional Lens to Examine the Child Sexual Exploitation of Black Adolescents

Bernard¹

2019

Child Sexual Exploitation: Why Theory Matters

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Child Sexual Exploitation and Black Children While it is well known that child sexual exploitation affects children and young people from all backgrounds, little is known about the scale and nature of black children's experiences of CSE. Research indicates that girls are more likely than boys to be the victims of sexual exploitation, though boys are also sexually exploited (Berelowitz et al, 2013; Pearce 2009). For Firmin (2018) and Pitts (2013), a number of elements negatively affect young black adolescents' everyday realities to render them a vulnerable population, including being raised in economically-disadvantaged communities and experiencing material hardship and societal racism. Increasingly, attention is being given to the ways in which structural disadvantage can heighten the risk of children being exposed to sexual exploitation (

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Local perspectives in Ending Gang and Youth Violence areas: Perceptions of the nature of urban street gangs

Cited by 21 publications

References 23 publications

Reluctant Gangsters Revisited: The Evolution of Gangs from Postcodes to Profits

Reluctant Gangsters Revisited: The Evolution of Gangs from Postcodes to Profits

Deficit or Credit? A Comparative, Qualitative Study of Gender Agency and Female Gang Membership in Los Angeles and Glasgow

Using an Intersectional Lens to Examine the Child Sexual Exploitation of Black Adolescents

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