Gangs in the Global City - $28.84 - Hagedorn, John M. (EDT) - 9780252073373

Gangs in the Global City
Alternatives to Traditional Criminology
Hagedorn, John M. (EDT)
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Although they were originally considered an American phenomenon, gangs today have grown and transformed into global enterprises. Despite these changes, criminologists have not yet reassessed worldwide gangs in terms of the other changes associated with gl

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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Although they were originally considered an American phenomenon, gangs today have grown and transformed into global enterprises. Despite these changes, criminologists have not yet reassessed worldwide gangs in terms of the other changes associated with globalization.

John M. Hagedorn aims to correct this oversight by incorporating important theoretical advances in urban political economy and understanding changes in gangs around the world as a result of globalization and the growth of the information economy. Contrary to older conceptions, today’s gangs are international, are often institutionalized, and may be explicitly concerned with race and ethnicity. Gangs in the Global City presents the work of an assortment of international scholars that challenges traditional approaches to problems in criminology from many different perspectives and includes theoretical discussions, case studies, and examinations of gang members’ identities. The contributors consider gangs not as fundamentally a crime problem but as variable social organizations in poor communities that are transitioning to the new economy.

AUTHOR BIO
John M. Hagedorn is an associate professor of criminal justice and a Great Cities Institute Fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Forsaking Our Children: Bureaucracy and Reform in the Child Welfare System and other books.

MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0252073371
ISBN(13-digit): 9780252073373
Dewey Decimal: 364.106/6
Library of Congress: 2006000326
Book Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 356

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