THE GANG AS STREET ORGANISATION
What happens when a violent gang tries to refashion itself as a political movement and the authorities don't want to know? Regardless of motive, actions have meanings and consequences that neither side may have foreseen.
David Brotherton, Associate Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice is co-author of The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang, an account of his experience of the notorious New York branch of an American super gang and its decision to go straight.
But was its newly politicised stance the result of genuine conversion or, as the New York authorities claimed, just a ruse to disguise on-going criminal activities? David Brotherton gives Laurie Taylor the benefit of his street level view of events
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RISKS - mobile phones
Hardly a day goes by when we are not being confronted with stories of possible risks to our health especially from the latest technologies, mobile phones are a prime example.
Laurie Taylor hears how worries about them originating in the United States, were then transmitted round the world and why subsequent international responses were so varied, ranging as they did from seriously concerned to completely indifferent.
To discuss the social construction of risk, Laurie Taylor is joined by Dr Adam Burgess, Lecturer in Sociology at Brunel University and author of Cellular Phones, Public Fears and a Culture of Precaution and Dr Bill Durodié, Senior Research Fellow at the International Policy Institute of King’s College London.
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David Brotherton
Associate Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the City University of New York.
The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang
David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios
Columbia University Press
ISBN 0231114192
Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives
Louis Kontos, David C.Brotherton, Luis Barrios
Columbia University Press
ISBN 0231121415
Dr Adam Burgess
Lecturer in Sociology at Brunel University
Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and a Culture of Precaution
Cambridge University Press
ISBN 0521520827
Dr Bill Durodié
Senior Research Fellow, International Policy Institute, King’s College London
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