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Author:   Adam Ellis ,  Olga Marques ,  Anthony Gunter
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9781487545574

ISBN 10:   1487545576
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   07 July 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony Gunter Part I: They Don’t Give a F**k about Us! Defanging and Decolonizing the Criminological Enterprise 1. Problematizing Traditional Criminological Perspectives on Thugs and Gangs Olga Marques 2. The White Male Criminological Gaze as Pornography: The Quasi-Sexual Academic Obsession with Black “Gang Bangers” Anthony Gunter 3. Writing Themselves Out of Research: “Whitemaleness” and the Study of “Gang” Active Young Women Clare Choak 4. Somethin’ Doesn’t Seem Right: A Commentary on the “Scientific Method” and “Gang”Research Adam Ellis and Anthony Gunter Part II: “Getting Over” and Inside the Ivory Tower 5. I Am (Not) What You Say I Am: The Colonizers’ “Gang” Gregory (Chris) Brown 6. A Black Scholar’s Intellectual Journey and Subsequent Perspective on the White Colonial “Gang” Project Ian Joseph 7. Good Trouble: Creating Spaces for Criminalized Populations in the Ivory Tower Lily Gonzalez, Javier Rodriguez, and Robert Weide Part III: Word on the Street 8. Shook Ones: An Insider’s Perspective on Trauma, PTSD, and the Reenactment of Street-Related Violence Adam Elis, Stephanie Belanger, and Luca Berardi 9. (De)Criminalizing the “Code of Silence"" – Reflections of a Former “Gangbanger” Turned Academic Anthony Hutchinson and Jared Millican 10. The Raid: State Violence and Traumatic Responses in the Lives of Black Women Melissa McLetchie 11a. Letter from the Streetz: Growing Up in the Gutter Chad Briand aka Turk 11b. Letter from the Streetz: Don’t Interrupt Me TG 11c. Letter from the Penetentiary: The Change in Me Alejandro Vivar 11d. Letter from the Streetz: Dear Hip Hop Marcus Singleton aka Iomos Marad Part IV: Decolonizing the Gang Industry 12. Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority Communities Anthony Gunter 13. A Violent Cure? Problematizing the “Cure Violence” Initiative Malte Riemann 14. When the System Harms: An Insider’s Perspective on the Negative Socio-psychological Impact of So-Called “Gang Intervention” Tammy Tinney 15. Fight Poverty, Fight Crime: A Justice Focused Approach for Toronto/Canada Yafet Tewelde and Julet Allen 16. We Make the Path by Walking It: Repairing, Restoring, and Constructing Pathways Rick Kelly Epilogue Adam Ellis Contributor Biographies"

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"""This provocative volume shatters the positivist paradigm that promotes 'truth' and 'fact' through a distant gaze. The insider researchers make a compelling case for how their experiences in jail, prison, stigmatized neighbourhoods, and poverty give them an intellectual edge in understanding why people join gangs and do crime. We have much to learn from scholars who have lived 'the life.'""--Randol Contreras, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Riverside, and author of The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream ""This volume offers an authentic insight into the tensions and challenges of street lives merged with academic lives. It challenges criminological orthodoxies without compromise, but with richness, poignancy, and foresight. We are challenged to think about who the real quantitative and qualitative 'thugs' are in the knowledge production enterprise. This is an essential and righteous contribution.""--Coretta Phillips, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, and author of The Multicultural Prison: Ethnicity, Masculinity, and Social Relations among Prisoners"

"""This provocative volume shatters the positivist paradigm that promotes 'truth' and 'fact' through a distant gaze. The insider researchers make a compelling case for how their experiences in jail, prison, stigmatized neighbourhoods, and poverty give them an intellectual edge in understanding why people join gangs and do crime. We have much to learn from scholars who have lived 'the life.'"" - Randol Contreras, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Riverside, and author of The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream ""This volume offers an authentic insight into the tensions and challenges of street lives merged with academic lives. It challenges criminological orthodoxies without compromise, but with richness, poignancy, and foresight. We are challenged to think about who the real quantitative and qualitative 'thugs' are in the knowledge production enterprise. This is an essential and righteous contribution."" - Coretta Phillips, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, and author of The Multicultural Prison: Ethnicity, Masculinity, and Social Relations among Prisoners"

Author Information

Adam Ellis is an assistant professor of criminology at the University of Waterloo and the founder of The Street Institute. Olga Marques is an associate professor of criminology and justice at Ontario Tech University. Anthony Gunter is a senior lecturer and programme lead for childhood and youth studies at The Open University.

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