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'This book offers a critical and perceptive account of the street gang. Defying conventional academic boundaries and constraints, David Brotherton, an acknowledged leading expert on this issue, takes us both theoretically and practically into the worlds of gang subcultures and offers a range of compelling insights into the lives of those involved in gang subcultures. He challenges conventional views of the gang and provides a new set of methodological tools that are designed to help him and the reader unpack the significance of this important global phenomena.' - Roger Matthews, Professor of Criminology, University of Kent, UK 'David Brotherton has spent decades of global involvement, activism and research earning the right to write this book - and now he's written it. As morally courageous as it is methodologically and theoretically innovative, Youth Street Gangs illuminates what others wilfully ignore: youthful street organizations in all their human and political complexity.' - Jeff Ferrell, Visiting Professor of Criminology, University of Kent, UK 'Brotherton weaves two powerful narratives through this book; the first is a theoretical and political history of gang studies, with a culminating vision for how to locate the gang within the folds of late modernity, post-colonialism, and global neoliberalism. The second is an eloquently written and passionate treatise on the necessity of a critical paradigm that will help students negotiate the epistemological and methodological borders of 21st Century academia. It is superb!' - Tim Black, Associate Professor of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, USA 'Based on more than two decades of intensive fieldwork with street gangs, Brotherton's new work is a call to arms for criminologists to move beyond the pointless and pathologizing risk factor approach to understanding youth gangs and to engage with our subject matter in a proper historical and sociological fashion. I hope the field is listening, the message could hardly be more important or compelling.' - Shadd Maruna, Dean, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University Newark, USA

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David C. Brotherton grew up in the East End of London, England. Dr Brotherton gained his doctorate in Sociology in 1992 and began work on street gang subcultures at UC Berkeley in the same year. In 1994, Dr Brotherton came to John Jay College of Criminal Justice at CUNY, where his research on youth resistance, marginalization and gangs led to the Street Organization Project in 1997. He has received research grants from both private and public agencies and has published widely in journals, books, newspapers and magazines. Dr Brotherton edits the Public Criminology book series at Columbia University Press and was named Critical Criminologist of the Year in 2011. He is currently Professor of Sociology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York.

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