RT Article
T1 Weapon-carrying among young men in Glasgow: street scripts and signals in uncertain social spaces
JF Critical criminology
VO 25
IS 1
SP 137
OP 151
A1 Holligan, Chris
A2 McLean, Robert
A2 Deuchar, Ross 1968-
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/184891301X
AB Our work contributes through a cultural criminological perspective to a contextualised knowledge of street violence and its constructed meanings; uncertainty, familiarity and strangeness in spaces of urban disadvantage as perceived by Scottish white youths are examined. Youth criminal and anti-social behaviour associated with knife-carrying is widely reported and structures political and media discourses which classify street culture. In our article we argue that a particular symbolic construction of social space, as experienced and constructed by weapon-carrying young white men in Glasgow, informs the landscape of violence judged in terms of official statistics and fear of crime. Signal crime theory as a particular type of cultural criminology affords insights about why weapons are carried. Links with a hierarchical codification of consumer culture inform the findings and resonate with the penetration of capitalism in the lives of the marginalised street youth.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 150-151
K1 Gang Member
K1 Housing Estate
K1 Place Attachment
K1 Social Space
K1 Street Gang
DO 10.1007/s10612-016-9336-5