RT Article
T1 Problematizing traditional criminological perspectives on thugs and gangs
JF Thug criminology
SP 13
OP 26
A1 Marques, Olga
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1886972206
AB Gangs are a survival unit that happens in the neighbourhood because people are tough. Young men decide: If we clique up, we’re safer. That’s all a gang starts out being. A protection unit. Then we decide, if three of us are tough, five of us are tougher. Meanwhile none of us has anything. Take the gangbangers’ outfit. It is the least expensive clothing: A white tee shirt, some Converses, pressed jeans, a carefully folded rag. That’s not by choice. That’s the cheapest shit at the swap meet. So what the ghetto kids have done is take nothing and turned it into something by turning it into power. The kids in the suburbs, the rich kids, have their cars, computers, designer clothing. But here comes the gang. They can be scared of us. We get a little fun out of that. It’s a way of balancing. (Ice T 2005, xviii)
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 24-26
SN 9781487547233
K1 Kriminologie
K1 Theorie
K1 Bande
K1 Jugendbande
K1 Gang