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The Street Casino : Survival in violent street gangs.
Simon Harding proposes an unique theoretical perspective on survival in violent street gangs which offers new evidence on gang behaviour, dynamics, affiliation and risks in inner city areas.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781447317203
- ISBN: 1447317203
- ISBN: 9781447317197
- ISBN: 144731719X
- ISBN: 9781447317210
- ISBN: 1447317211
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (349 pages)
- Publisher: Bristol : Policy Press, 2014.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | What is new here? |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | THE STREET CASINO; Contents; List of tables, figures and boxes; Tables; Figures; Boxes; Glossary; Theoretical explanatory terms; Gang terms; About the author; Acknowledgements; Preface: living and working in the social field; 1. Introduction; Searching for answers; Adopting a fresh approach: field analysis; Street capital and the street casino; Conducting the study; Researching the social field; Anonymity and terminology; Chapter outlines; 2. Academic gangland; UK gang research; Contemporary UK developments; Joining a gang; Gang organisation; Gang characteristics and boundaries. Gang behaviours and offendingRespect and reputation; Becoming a competent actor in the gang; An emergent research agenda?; 3. The game, the stakes, the players: key concepts; Field theory; The habitus; The settlement and the players; Actors' field position; The game; Critique of Bourdieu; The social field of the gang; Gang periphery; Social capital; Street capital; 4. House rules, game rules and game strategies; Neighbourhood rules; The influence of the habitus; Street code; Developing game strategies and the gang repertoire; Strategic action using the gang repertoire. 5. Players, positioning and keeping orderThe structure of the social field; Reconstruction of social order; Using social skill to maintain social order; New players, new rules and side bets; 6. Playing the game: generating and keeping your chips; Playing 'the game'; Getting started in the game: earning respect; Establishing a reputation as a 'playa'; 7. Staying in the game -- and playing to win; Maintaining your street capital: 'being tested'; Transitioning from the expressive to the instrumental repertoire; Business take-overs; Playing to win: maximising street capital through reputation. 8. The game in action: habitus, street capital and territoryThe game in action: playing on my turf; 9. Learning the risks of the game: life in the landscape of risk; Learning the rules of the game; Early recognition of the social field; Getting involved in the gang; Factors influencing gang affiliation; Risk mitigation; 10 Surviving in the game; Maintaining awareness of field position; Hyper-vigilance; Threat assessment; Buying protection; Living 'off the hood'; Multiple membership; Switching allegiance; Temporary allegiance and confederation; Visual presence, visual impact and physicality. Code switchingDeveloping dual personas; Risks associated with territory; Risks at the boundary of the social field; Ethnicity; 11. Creating the house advantage: the role of information; Community engagement; How is information used?; The network; Strategic action using information; The challenges of trading information; Social networking sites; 12. Playing the queen: gender in the gang; Traditional gang research perspectives on girls and young women; Social field analysis; 13. The wheel of fortune: the sanctions repertoire; Affirmative sanctions; Negative sanctions; 14. The street casino. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Gangs. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |
