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Gangs and Spirituality: Global Perspectives

Autor Ross Deuchar
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 ian 2019
This book examines the role of religion and spirituality in desistance from crime and disengagement from gangs. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with male gang members and offenders as well as insights gathered from pastors, chaplains, coaches and personal mentors, the testimonials span three continents, focusing on the USA, Scotland, Denmark and Hong Kong. This volume offers unique empirical findings about the role that religion and spirituality can play in enabling some male gang members and offenders to transition into a new social sphere characterised by the presence of substitute forms of brotherhood and trust, and alternative forms of masculine status. The author presents critical insights into the potential relationship between religious and spiritual participation and the emergence of coping strategies to deal with the ‘stigmata’ that gang masculinity leaves behind. With its wide-ranging and multi-perspective approach, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of gang culture, masculinity and spirituality, as well as policy makers and practitioners. 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030076757
ISBN-10: 303007675X
Pagini: 267
Ilustrații: XXI, 267 p. 2 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1. Introduction: Gangs in Global Perspective.- PART I. Gangs, Masculinity and Spirituality: Existing Theories and Insights.- Chapter 2. Gang Members 'Doing Masculinity'.- Chapter 3. Religious and Spiritual Desistance from Gangs.- PART II. Los Angeles, USA: From Gangs and Guns to Love and Compassion.- Chapter 4. Amplified Masculinity among Los Angeles Homeboys.- Chapter 5. Love, Compassion and Therapeutic Communities in Homeboy Industries.- PART III. Scotland and Denmark: From Violence, Offending and Prison Life to Religiosity, Yoga and Breathing.- Chapter 6. Masculinity, Morality and Offending in Scotland and Denmark.- Chapter 7. Support in Times of Trouble: Chaplaincy in Scottish and Danish Prisons.- Chapter 8. 'Warriors' to 'Peacemakers': Yoga, breathing and Meditation in Denmark.- PART IV: Hong Kong: From Triad-Affiliated Gangsters to Christian Brothers.- Chapter 9. Foot Soldiers, Gangsters and Drug Addicts in Hong Kong.- Chapter 10. From Criminal Gangsters to Men ofGod.- Chapter 11. Conclusion: From Masculine Criminal Distinction to Spiritual Distinction.

Recenzii

“Throughout the book, readers will encounter rich narrative and biographical accounts of offenders, their backgrounds, their offences, and their road to desistance. It is through these accounts that complex stories are neatly unpacked through a combination of theory and consumable novelistic perspectives.” (Mohammed Rahman, The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Vol. 58 (1), March, 2018)

Notă biografică

Ross Deuchar is Assistant Dean in the School of Education and Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Unit on Crime, Policing and Social Justice within the University of the West of Scotland, UK. He has published widely on youth violence and crime, gangs and criminal desistance.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

This book examines the role of religion and spirituality in desistance from crime and disengagement from gangs. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with male gang members and offenders as well as insights gathered from pastors, chaplains, coaches and personal mentors, the testimonials span three continents, focusing on the USA, Scotland, Denmark and Hong Kong. This volume offers unique empirical findings about the role that religion and spirituality can play in enabling some male gang members and offenders to transition into a new social sphere characterised by the presence of substitute forms of brotherhood and trust, and alternative forms of masculine status. The author presents critical insights into the potential relationship between religious and spiritual participation and the emergence of coping strategies to deal with the ‘stigmata’ that gang masculinity leaves behind. With its wide-ranging and multi-perspective approach, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of gang culture, masculinity and spirituality, as well as policy makers and practitioners. 

Caracteristici

Includes a foreword from Scott Decker Offers insights from spiritual and faith-based interventions around the world to illustrate the way in which these programmes assist gang members in re-focusing their masculine orientations and the impact this has on supporting them to reform Draws on in-depth interviews conducted within local communities, rehabilitation centres and prisons, as well as insights gathered from pastors, chaplains, personal mentors and coaches in the USA, Scotland, Denmark and Hong Kong Provides first-hand insights into the challenges that gang members face and the links between their socially constructed views of masculinity