Thug criminology
a call to action
- ISBN: 9781487547233
- Editorial: University of Toronto Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: Toronto. Canadá
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 284
- Idiomas: Inglés
Thug Criminology combines the urgent and as yet silenced voices of former gang/street-involved peoples turned academics, alongside their allies, in order to challenge and disrupt mainstream and academic knowledge about urban youth gangs specifically, and the "streets" more broadly.
The book questions how the "streets" - and the racialized and marginalized urban communities who inhabit them - are researched, taught, and subsequently politicized. It looks at who gets to produce such knowledge, who benefits from such knowledge, and whose voices are privileged within dominant academic and public policy discourses. Drawing on decolonizing methodologies, the book seeks to give voice to scholars with lived experience of a "street" or gang life. Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony Gunter reclaim the terms thug and gang to reconstruct the narrative around street-involved youth, seeing them not as criminals but rather as survivors of historical oppression and trauma. Challenging the colonial structure of criminology and other disciplines that focus on street crime, Thug Criminology aims to disrupt and disentangle the knowledge that has been produced on gangs and urban violence.
Introduction Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony GunterPart I: They Don’t Give a F**k about Us! Defanging and Decolonizing the Criminological Enterprise1. Problematizing Traditional Criminological Perspectives on Thugs and GangsOlga 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 WomenClare Choak4. Somethin’ Doesn’t Seem Right: A Commentary on the “Scientific Method” and “Gang”ResearchAdam Ellis and Anthony GunterPart II: “Getting Over” and Inside the Ivory Tower5. I Am (Not) What You Say I Am: The Colonizers’ “Gang”Gregory (Chris) Brown6. A Black Scholar’s Intellectual Journey and Subsequent Perspective on the White Colonial “Gang” Project Ian Joseph7. Good Trouble: Creating Spaces for Criminalized Populations in the Ivory TowerLily Gonzalez, Javier Rodriguez, and Robert WeidePart III: Word on the Street8. Shook Ones: An Insider’s Perspective on Trauma, PTSD, and the Reenactment of Street-Related ViolenceAdam Elis, Stephanie Belanger, and Luca Berardi9. (De)Criminalizing the “Code of Silence" – Reflections of a Former “Gangbanger” Turned AcademicAnthony Hutchinson and Jared Millican 10. The Raid: State Violence and Traumatic Responses in the Lives of Black WomenMelissa McLetchie11a. Letter from the Streetz: Growing Up in the GutterChad Briand aka Turk 11b. Letter from the Streetz: Don’t Interrupt MeTG11c. Letter from the Penetentiary: The Change in MeAlejandro Vivar11d. Letter from the Streetz: Dear Hip Hop Marcus Singleton aka Iomos Marad Part IV: Decolonizing the Gang Industry12. Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority CommunitiesAnthony Gunter13. A Violent Cure? Problematizing the “Cure Violence” InitiativeMalte Riemann14. When the System Harms: An Insider’s Perspective on the Negative Socio-psychological Impact of So-Called “Gang Intervention”Tammy Tinney15. Fight Poverty, Fight Crime: A Justice Focused Approach for Toronto/CanadaYafet Tewelde and Julet Allen16. We Make the Path by Walking It: Repairing, Restoring, and Constructing PathwaysRick Kelly
