Thug Criminology

A Call to Action

Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, Anthony Gunter (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

284 Seiten

2023
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4557-4 (ISBN)

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Drawing in part on the lived experiences of contributors who have overcome a "street life," Thug Criminology seeks to challenge the traditional scholarship on gangs and their behaviours.

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.

Adam Ellis is an assistant professor of criminology at the University of Waterloo and the founder of The Street Institute. Olga Marques is an associate professor of criminology and justice at Ontario Tech University. Anthony Gunter is a senior lecturer and programme lead for childhood and youth studies at The Open University.

Introduction
Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony Gunter

Part I: They Don’t Give a F**k about Us! Defanging and Decolonizing the Criminological Enterprise

1. Problematizing Traditional Criminological Perspectives on Thugs and Gangs
Olga 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 Women
Clare Choak
4. Somethin’ Doesn’t Seem Right: A Commentary on the “Scientific Method” and “Gang”Research
Adam Ellis and Anthony Gunter

Part II: “Getting Over” and Inside the Ivory Tower

5. I Am (Not) What You Say I Am: The Colonizers’ “Gang”
Gregory (Chris) Brown

6. A Black Scholar’s Intellectual Journey and Subsequent Perspective on the White Colonial “Gang” Project
Ian Joseph

7. Good Trouble: Creating Spaces for Criminalized Populations in the Ivory Tower
Lily Gonzalez, Javier Rodriguez, and Robert Weide

Part III: Word on the Street

8. Shook Ones: An Insider’s Perspective on Trauma, PTSD, and the Reenactment of Street-Related Violence
Adam Elis, Stephanie Belanger, and Luca Berardi

9. (De)Criminalizing the “Code of Silence" – Reflections of a Former “Gangbanger” Turned Academic
Anthony Hutchinson and Jared Millican

10. The Raid: State Violence and Traumatic Responses in the Lives of Black Women
Melissa McLetchie

11a. Letter from the Streetz: Growing Up in the Gutter
Chad Briand aka Turk

11b. Letter from the Streetz: Don’t Interrupt Me
TG

11c. Letter from the Penetentiary: The Change in Me
Alejandro Vivar

11d. Letter from the Streetz: Dear Hip Hop
Marcus Singleton aka Iomos Marad

Part IV: Decolonizing the Gang Industry

12. Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority Communities
Anthony Gunter

13. A Violent Cure? Problematizing the “Cure Violence” Initiative
Malte Riemann

14. When the System Harms: An Insider’s Perspective on the Negative Socio-psychological Impact of So-Called “Gang Intervention”
Tammy Tinney

15. Fight Poverty, Fight Crime: A Justice Focused Approach for Toronto/Canada
Yafet Tewelde and Julet Allen

16. We Make the Path by Walking It: Repairing, Restoring, and Constructing Pathways
Rick Kelly

Epilogue
Adam Ellis

Contributor Biographies

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2023
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-4875-4557-6 / 1487545576
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-4557-4 / 9781487545574
Zustand	Neuware