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Dealing, music and youth violence : neighbourhood relational change, isolation and youth criminality /

With fascinating ethnographic and interview data, James Alexander explores the disappearance of localised relationships and the rise in youth violence in a South London housing estate. Evaluating the effectiveness of youth work programmes, he considers the impact of the gradual move from neighbourly...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alexander, James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2023.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover
  • Dealing, Music and Youth Violence: Neighbourhood Relational Change, Isolation and Youth Criminality
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • 1 Introduction: Nearly Two Decades of Concern, Yet Young People Are Still Dying
  • An overview of the context of knife crime and the efforts to address serious youth violence in the UK
  • Neighbourhood research
  • Neighbourhood crime: some theoretical underpinnings
  • Chapter structure
  • 2 The Wider Historical and Social Context of 'Black Criminality' and Youth Violence
  • Racism, resistance and addressing offending behaviour within a changing political climate
  • Historical context of migration, deprivation and racism
  • New Labour: new focus?
  • Serious youth violence and gangs branding
  • Understanding the impact of oppression, racism and policy failure on youth safety
  • 3 Exploring the Neighbourhood
  • Deprivation, population change, diversity and relational change
  • The people who make it all happen
  • St Mary's young people
  • Taking a wider view
  • The built environment of the estate
  • Local concern and local action
  • 4 Localized Disempowerment and the Development of Criminal Cultures
  • How council interventions increased the space for a violent street culture to evolve
  • St Mary's Estate youth project
  • Studio time
  • Early signs of youth violence
  • A new cooperative approach
  • Proposal
  • New values, relationships and statuses
  • Death, mourning and action
  • 5 All Alone: Youth Isolation and the Embedding of a Violent Street Culture
  • The emergence of street culture
  • Further isolation and the entrenchment of a violent street culture
  • Continuation and escalation
  • Professionalizing support, relational breakdown and increased violence
  • 6 Studio Time, Drill and the Criminalization of Black Culture
  • Drill: the sound of the estate
  • The attention economy
  • Police crackdowns and criminalization
  • Criminal personas or an artistic income stream?
  • 7 Separated, Isolated and Unconnected
  • Focusing on primary school children and leaving the olders to police enforcement
  • Residents standing up for themselves
  • Summer play scheme
  • Operation Shield
  • St Mary's Football Project on the estate
  • Residents rebuilding their confidence and the failure of enforcement
  • 8 The New Normal: From Gang Violence to Individualized Danger and Child Criminal Exploitation
  • Disconnected simulation
  • From gang violence to criminal exploitation and individual risk
  • Lowered threshold
  • Violence normalization and desensitization
  • Criminal exploitation, desensitization and the new drivers of violence
  • 9 Learning from the Past or More of the Same
  • Shifting to a public health approach to tackling serious youth violence
  • Public health approach
  • A child first approach within youth justice