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Gangs --- Gang prevention

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Street gangs are a major concern for residents in many inner-city communities. However, gangs’ secretive and, at times, delinquent tendencies limit most people’s exposure to the realities of gang life. Based on eighteen months of qualitative research on the streets of Indianapolis, Real Gangstas provides a unique and intimate look at the lives of street gang members as they negotiate a dangerous peer environment in a major midwestern city. Timothy R. Lauger interviewed and observed a mix of fifty-five gang members, former gang members, and non-gang street offenders. He spent much of his fieldwork time in the company of a particular gang, the “Down for Whatever Boyz,” who allowed him to watch and record many of their day-to-day activities and conversations. Through this extensive research, Lauger is able to understand and explain the reasons for gang membership, including a chaotic family life, poverty, and the need for violent self-assertion in order to foster the creation of a personal identity. Although the book exposes many troubling aspects of gang life, it is not a simple descriptive or a sensationalistic account of urban despair and violence. Steeped in the tradition of analytical ethnography, the study develops a central theoretical argument: combinations of street gangs within cities shape individual gang member behavior within those urban settings. Within Indianapolis, members of rival gangs interact on a routine basis within an ambiguous and unstable environment. Participants believe that many of their contemporaries claiming gang affiliations are not actually “real” gang members, but instead are imposters who gain access to the advantages of gang membership through fraud and pretense. Consequently, the ability to discern “real” gang members—or to present oneself successfully as a real gang member—is a critical part of gangland Indianapolis. Real Gangstas offers an objective and fair characterization of active gang members, successfully balancing the seemingly conflicting idea that they generally seem like normal teenagers, yet are abnormally concerned with—and too often involved in—violence. Lauger takes readers to the edge of an actual gang conflict, providing a rare and up-close look at the troubling processes that facilitate hostility and violence.

Youth and violence --- Gang members --- Gangs --- Members of gangs --- Persons

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Crime prevention --- Violence --- Gangs --- Gang prevention --- Drug traffic --- Central America --- Social conditions. --- Drug dealing --- Drug production, Illicit --- Drug smuggling --- Drug trade, Illicit --- Drug trafficking --- Drugs --- Illicit drug production --- Illicit drug trade --- Narcotic trade --- Narcotic traffic --- Narcotic trafficking --- Smuggling of drugs --- Smuggling of narcotics --- Traffic, Drug --- Trafficking in drugs --- Trafficking in narcotics --- Gang intervention --- Intervention, Gang --- Prevention of gangs --- Crews (Gangs) --- Crime syndicates --- Street gangs --- Teen gangs --- Teenage gangs --- Violent behavior --- Crime --- Prevention of crime --- Prices and sale --- Prevention --- Government policy --- Drug abuse and crime --- Narco-terrorism --- Criminals --- Juvenile delinquents --- Hoodlums --- Social psychology --- Public safety

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Sir Alexander Grantham became Governor of Hong Kong in 1947 and served until 1957. His term of office saw rapid reconstruction and growing prosperity after World War II. Civil war and revolution in China drove hundreds of thousands of refugees into the British colony, while tense relations between Britain and the new People's Republic gave rise to difficult and potentially explosive incidents in Hong Kong. Plans for democratic reform were quietly dropped as Grantham instead crafted an authoritarian form of government that combined strong leadership with gradual social reform - a system that lasted almost to the end of colonial rule. In this elegant memoir, first published by the Hong Kong University Press in 1965, Grantham describes his thirty-five years in the British colonial service, which began in Hong Kong in 1922 and ended here in 1957; he also held senior positions in Bermuda, Jamaica, Nigeria and the South Pacific. Only a few of Hong Kong's former governors have published anything about their terms of office here, but Grantham's stands out as the most interesting and substantial. Via Ports is an important first-hand account of the workings of Britain's colonial system. It also contains vivid, often amusing anecdotes about life behind the scenes in Government House during the long twilight of the British Empire.

Governors general --- Colonial administrators --- Governors --- Grantham, Alexander. --- Hong Kong (China) --- Great Britain --- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (China) --- Xiang gang te bie xing zheng qu (China) --- 香港特別行政區 (China) --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo Hsiang-kang tʻe pieh hsing cheng chʻü --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo Xiang gang te bie xing zheng qu --- 中華人民共和國香港特別行政區 --- HKSAR (China) --- Hsiang-kang tʻe pieh hsing cheng chʻü (China) --- Xianggang (China) --- 香港 (China) --- Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu (China) --- Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) --- Hong Kong --- History --- Colonies --- Officials and employees --- Kings and rulers --- Public officers --- Grantham, Alexander, --- Fiji --- Politics and government. --- E-books

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Die Frage nach dem Mythos RAF und seinen Bestandteilen geistert durch die Terrorismus-Debatten der letzten Jahre, ohne dass genauere Definitionen oder Erklärungen greifbar wären.Welche Mythen zirkulieren über die »Rote Armee Fraktion« und wer hat sie geschaffen? Welche Mythenbestandteile sind heute noch von Bedeutung und welche Bilder der RAF werden dabei vermittelt? Und nicht zuletzt: Welche Bedeutung haben die Wandlungen des Mythos RAF für die bundesrepublikanische Erinnerungskultur? Anhand von Motiven aus Spielfilmen und Romanen zeigt Cordia Baumann nicht nur Ansatzpunkte zur Mythenbildung auf, sondern verfolgt auch die Entwicklung und Veränderung einzelner Mythen um die RAF und ihre Protagonistinnen und Protagonisten.

Terrorism in literature. --- Terrorism in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Rote Armee Fraktion --- Red Army Faction --- Baader-Meinhof Gang --- Baader-Meinhof Group --- RAF (Red Army Faction) --- Vörös Hadsereg Frakció --- In literature. --- In motion pictures. --- allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft --- Filmgeschichte --- Filmkritik --- Filmtheorie --- Literatur --- Literaturwissenschaft