Beyond the Street Corner - Robert F. Hesketh

Beyond the Street Corner

Understanding Urban Street Gang Membership
Buch | Hardcover
XIX, 272 Seiten
2025
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-75238-4 (ISBN)
117,69 inkl. MwSt

This book presents an in-depth investigation into street gang involvement, desistance, and non-involvement through the lens of the Risk Factor Prevention Paradigm (RFPP). This framework encompasses five domains of risk and prevention: family, neighbourhood, peers, individual, and school. It identifies the risk and protective factors that influence young people to either engage in, desist or abstain from involvement in deviant street groups.

Based on a comprehensive five-and-a-half-year study, the author draws upon his lifelong experience living in Stockbridge Village, Merseyside, one of the most deprived areas in the UK marked by street gang activity and organised crime. The author's unique position allows him to establish a strong rapport with young, disenfranchised individuals involved in street gangs.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of critical observations related to street gang involvement by integrating insights that provide a nuanced understanding of the sociocultural factors that both drive individuals toward gang involvement and contribute to their desistance from it.  The author highlights key topics including the practice of drug dealing as deviant entrepreneurship, the role of friendship networks in determining engagement in street gang-related activities, the allure of risk as a motivator for involvement and the participation of young women through relationships with young men associated with street gangs. Ultimately, the work offers fresh perspectives on both gang membership and non-membership, advocating for the development of homegrown interventions rooted in social capital through bridging and social mobility as viable strategies for addressing street gang involvement.

Robert Hesketh is a chartered psychologist and  lecturer in criminal Justice  in the School of Justice Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has written extensively on the topic of street gangs in the UK swell as  having also taught at the University of Chester and Edge Hill University (Criminology and Forensic Psychology). He presently holds a BA (Combined Hons) in Psychology and Sociology, an MA in Sociology and Social Policy, an MSc in Applied Psychology, a postgraduate diploma in offender profiling with his PhD focused on a multi-disciplinary exploration of street gangs on Merseyside. He is also Fellow of the High Education Academy.    

Part One.- Chapter 1: Street Chronicles: Tracing the Evolution of Gang Scholarship.- Chapter 2. Countering the Asphalt Menace: UK's Street Gang Policy Playbook.- Chapter 3: Climbing the Ladder: From Gangs to Adult Organised Crime Groups.- Part Two.- Chapter 4: Researching Street Gangs.- Chapter 5: Home Safe Home: Family Influences on Gang-Involved Youth (Family Domain).- Chapter 6: Streets of Influence (Neigbourhood Domain).- Chapter 7: Social Capital: The Friends we keep! (Peer Domain).- Chapter 8: Living on the Edge: Navigating Risk and Resilience (Individual Domain).- Chapter 9: Between the Lines: Navigating Risk and Protection (School Domain).- Chapter 10: Conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.1.2025
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society
Zusatzinfo XIX, 272 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
Schlagworte edge work • gang interventions • gang theory • Law enforcement • Policing Gangs • Probation • researching gangs • Research methods • Social Inequality • Social mobility • Violence • women and gangs • Youth justice
ISBN-10 3-031-75238-4 / 3031752384
ISBN-13 978-3-031-75238-4 / 9783031752384
Zustand Neuware
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