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This book challenges current thinking about youth violence and gangs, and their racialisation by the media and the police. It highlights how the street gang label is unfairly linked to Black (and urban) youth street-based lifestyles/cultures and friendship groups.
Crime. --- Juvenile delinquency --- Gangs. --- Gang prevention. --- Crime and race. --- Youth, Black --- Prevention. --- Crimes against. --- Crews (Gangs) --- Crime syndicates --- Street gangs --- Teen gangs --- Teenage gangs --- Criminals --- Juvenile delinquents --- Hoodlums --- Race and crime --- Race-crime relationships --- Race --- Gang intervention --- Gangs --- Intervention, Gang --- Prevention of gangs --- Crime prevention --- Prevention of juvenile delinquency --- Black youth --- Negro youth --- City crime --- Crime --- Crime and criminals --- Crimes --- Delinquency --- Felonies --- Misdemeanors --- Urban crime --- Social problems --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal law --- Criminology --- Transgression (Ethics) --- Prevention --- Social aspects
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Utilising individual interviews and focus group discussions, primarily from two Chinese cities, 'The Chinese Mafia' contributes to the understanding of organized crime and corruption in the Chinese context, filling a significant gap in criminological literature, by investigating how extra-legal protectors - corrupt public officials and street gangsters - emerge, evolve and operate in a rapidly changing society. China's economic reforms have been accompanied by a surge of social problems, such as ineffective legal institutions, booming black markets and rampant corruption. This has resulted in the rise of extra-legal means of protection and enforcement: such is the demand for protection that cannot be fulfilled by state-sponsored institutions.
Mafia --- Gangs --- Corruption --- Crime --- Corrupt practices --- Ethics --- Crews (Gangs) --- Crime syndicates --- Street gangs --- Teen gangs --- Teenage gangs --- Criminals --- Juvenile delinquents --- Hoodlums --- Maffia --- Organized crime --- Màfia --- Crim organitzat --- Corrupció --- Xina --- Delictes de corrupció --- Pràctiques corruptes --- Corrupció administrativa --- Corrupció en els esports --- Corrupció política --- Crim internacional --- Gansterisme --- Organitzacions criminals --- Sindicats del crim --- Blanqueig de diners --- Camorra --- Prostitució --- Thags (Organitzacions criminals) --- Tràfic de drogues --- Triades (Organitzacions criminals) --- Delictes --- Cathay --- China --- República de la Xina (1912-1949) --- República Popular de la Xina --- República Popular Xina --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Xina (República : 1912-1949) --- Àsia oriental --- Canton (Xina) --- Guangdong (Xina) --- Hainan (Xina : Sheng) --- Henan (Xina : Sheng) --- Hong Kong (Xina) --- Macau (Xina : Regió administrativa especial) --- Iang-Tsé (Xina : Curs d'aigua) --- Manxúria (Xina : Regió) --- Mongòlia Interior (Xina : Zizhiqu) --- Pequín (Xina) --- Sichuan (Xina : Sheng) --- Xinjiang (Xina : Regió) --- Xangai (Xina) --- Yunnan (Xina : Sheng) --- Brahmaputra (Àsia : Curs d'aigua) --- Tibet (Xina)
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"Nouvelle 'forme de criminalité' à Kinshasa, le phénomène 'kuluna' est au cœur des problèmes sociaux, politiques et économiques ainsi que des pratiques de leur gestion en République Démocratique du Congo. Face aux actes violents des jeunes regroupés en bandes, et à la forte expression populaire d'un sentiment d'insécurité, une opération policière 'spéciale' d'envergure a été menée en 2013: l'opération 'Likofi' (Coup de poing, en français). Cet ouvrage présente les résultats d'une recherche de terrain sur les significations de cette violence, pour ces jeunes, et de la réaction policière."--Page 4 of cover.
Urban violence --- Youth and violence --- Political violence --- Gangs --- Urban youth --- Vice control --- Police --- Kinshasa (Congo) --- Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Social conditions --- Politics and government --- Bandes (Criminalité) --- Benden (Criminaliteit) --- Geweld --- Violence --- Social problems --- Criminal law. Criminal procedure --- Kinshasa --- Youth --- Cops --- Gendarmes --- Law enforcement officers --- Officers, Law enforcement --- Officers, Police --- Police forces --- Police officers --- Police service --- Policemen --- Policing --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal justice personnel --- Peace officers --- Public safety --- Security systems --- Control of vice --- Law enforcement --- City dwellers --- City children --- Crews (Gangs) --- Crime syndicates --- Street gangs --- Teen gangs --- Teenage gangs --- Criminals --- Juvenile delinquents --- Hoodlums --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Violence and youth --- Young people --- Young persons --- Youngsters --- Youths --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- History --- Attitudes --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:343.9H0 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Criminologie --- Urban violence - Congo (Democratic Republic) - Kinshasa --- Youth and violence - Congo (Democratic Republic) - Kinshasa --- Political violence - Congo (Democratic Republic) - Kinshasa --- Gangs - Congo (Democratic Republic) - Kinshasa --- Urban youth - Congo (Democratic Republic) - Kinshasa --- Vice control - Congo (Democratic Republic) - Kinshasa --- Police - Congo (Democratic Republic) - Kinshasa --- Kinshasa (Congo) - Social conditions --- Congo (Democratic Republic) - Politics and government - 1997 --- -#SBIB:39A4
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