The Street Casino : : Survival in Violent Street Gangs / / Simon Harding.
Gang violence is on the increase in certain neighbourhoods. There is an urgent need for a fresh perspective that offers insight into gang structure, organisation and offending behaviour to explain this increase. Using the findings from an extensive ethnographic study of local residents, professional...
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Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of tables, figures and boxes
- Glossary
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: living and working in the social field
- Introduction
- Academic gangland
- The game, the stakes, the players: key concepts
- House rules, game rules and game strategies
- Players, positioning and keeping order
- Playing the game: generating and keeping your chips
- Staying in the game – and playing to win
- The game in action: habitus, street capital and territory
- Learning the risks of the game: life in the landscape of risk
- Surviving in the game
- Creating the house advantage: the role of information
- Playing the queen: gender in the gang
- The wheel of fortune: the sanctions repertoire
- The street casino
- References
- SW9 postcode
- Lambeth key crime types
- The Duluth Power and Control Wheel
- Example of gang evolution and fracturing: organised crime
- Approximate gang locations in SW9 (July 2011)
- Timeline of known gangs in SW9
- Index