Gangs in the Global City

Exploring Alternatives to Traditional Criminology

Edited by John M. Hagedorn
University of Illinois-Chicago
Univesity of Illinois Press


Table of Contents

Introduction "Globalization, Gangs, and Traditional Criminology"
John M. Hagedorn


Section One: Theoretical Perspectives


Chapter 1 "Gangs, Institutions, Race, and Space. The Chicago School Revisited."
John M. Hagedorn

Chapter 2 "Three Pernicious Premises in the Study of the American Ghetto."
Loic J.D. Wacquant

Chapter 3 "Crossing the Borderline: Globalisation and Social Exclusion: The Sociology of Vindictiveness and the Criminology of Transgression."
Jock Young

Section Two: Spaces of Globalization

Chapter 4: "The Global City: One Setting for New Types of Gang Work and Political Culture?"
Saskia Sassen

Chapter Five "Observing New Zealand's Gangs, 1950-2000: learning from a small country"
Cameron Hazlehurst

Chapter Six "Economic and Political Changes in Southern Mexico and the rise orf Street Youth Subcultures: The Case of San Critobal de Las Casas in the State of Chiapas"
John Rus and Diego Vigil

Section Three: Identities of Resistance

Chapter Seven "Female Gangs; Gender and globalization"
Joan W. Moore

Chapter Eight "Youth Groupings, Identity, and the Political Context - On the Significance of Extremist Youth Groupings in Unified Germany"
Joachim Kersten

Chapter Nine "A spirituality of liberation that understands our "realidad humana" without avoiding our "solidaridad humana": An experiment identified as the Almighty Latin Kings/Queens Nation"
Rev. Luis Barrios

Section Four: Response to Neo-liberalism

Chapter Ten "Towards the gang as a social movement"
David Brotherton

Chapter Eleven "Americanisation, the Third Way and the Racialisation of Youth Crime and Disorder"
John Pitts


Conclusions


Chapter Twelve "Gangs in Late Modernity"
John M. Hagedorn

Chapter Thirteen "The Challenges of Gangs in Global Contexts"
James F. Short, Jr.