It Started with the Hats
Southern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8093-3944-0 (ISBN)
Throughout his extensive career with the Boston Police, Joyce was at the forefront of the Department’s anti-gang and youth violence initiatives, including during the height of gang and gun violence in the late 1980s through early 1990s. Later in his career, after thirty-one years in policing, Joyce transitioned to academia as a criminologist, seeking to better understand the lives of the gang members he had encountered during his time as an officer. He interviewed thirty Black and Latino men who witnessed and led the emergence of the street gang phenomenon in Boston. Joyce’s strong relationship with community leaders led to the recruitment of the men, who ultimately entrusted him with their life stories and their inner worlds. Using the men’s own words to describe the tragedies they endured, the crimes they committed, and the penalties they paid, Joyce now shares their stories of life before, during, and after gang membership.
Joyce examines the influences that motivated the men toward joining gangs, their gang experiences, and the turning points that shaped their paths later in life, whether leading to desistance from or continued persistence in criminal behavior. Joyce explores their lives from childhood into adulthood, providing a deep analysis of the factors that influenced the entire trajectory of gang members’ lives. By utilizing this life-course approach, Joyce adds to the discourse regarding what influences a gang member’s ability or inability to transition out of criminality and the gang life.
This uniquely candid look at gang membership, humanized by the perspectives of the men who experienced it, provides invaluable insight into the complex interplay of the social, cultural, and personal factors that shape individuals’ life courses. This, in turn, has important implications regarding the types of outside interventions that would be the most effective in making a positive difference in the lives of current and former gang members.
Paul F. Joyce is assistant professor and chair of the criminal justice and criminology department at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI. He was a police officer for more than thirty-one years, including twenty-eight years with the Boston Police Department, policing street gangs and developing strategies to address youth gang violence.
CONTENTS
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Importance of Studying Gang Membership over the Life Course
1. Finding and Contacting the Men: Methods of Study
2. Setting the Foundation for Gang Membership: Neighborhood, Family, and Education
3. Tracing the Origins of Boston’s Late-1980s Street Gangs
4. It’s Our Time: Life in the Gang
5. Leaving the Gang Life and Crime
6. No Escape from the Gang Life and Crime
7. Concluding Thoughts
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.08.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Perspectives on Crime and Justice |
Zusatzinfo | 6 images |
Verlagsort | Carbondale |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 54 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8093-3944-7 / 0809339447 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8093-3944-0 / 9780809339440 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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