Sökning: "Youth gangs"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Youth gangs.
1. Bilden av den "hotfulla ungdomen" : Om ungdomsproblem och fastställandet och upprätthållandet av samhällets moraliska gränser
Sammanfattning : The main aim of my dissertation is to investigate som conceptions, power relations, and practices in the discourse of youth problems. I have studied some of the actors that are involved in the social constructing of the "juvenile delinquent" such as the police, the judical system, the social service, the media, the general public and last but not least, the young people themselves. LÄS MER
2. Justice for children? : A socio-legal study on Colombia’s responses to children associated with armed violence
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to examine how criminal justice policy practices arose and persist in light of the international victim-centred legal framework for children associated with armed groups. The study explores the gaps between how children are treated in law versus empirical practices of criminalisation in a particular domestic setting (Colombia), which has been riddled by internal armed conflict and hybrid forms of violence. LÄS MER
3. Favela Funk – Ways of Being Young in the Urban Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro
Sammanfattning : During the last decades, funk music produced in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro has been travelling the world as a genre of contemporary cool. Construed as both hip and authentic and consumed globally, it has become a political and commercial asset in the nation’s rise to economic dominance and in Rio’s campaign to become a global city. LÄS MER
4. Berättelser om ungdomsgäng i förorten. Genus, makt, moral
Sammanfattning : Abstract Title: Narratives about youth gangs in the disadvantaged suburban neighbourhood. Gender, power, morality Author: Susanne Liljeholm Hansson Key words: Youth gangs, criminality, disadvantaged neighbourhood, codes of conduct, social constructionism, narrative analysis, interpretive repertoire, categorization, social exclusion, relative deprivation, moral differentiation, gender, positioning, hegemonic masculinity, protest masculinity, power relations Distribution: University of Gothenburg, Department of Social Work, Box 720, S-405 30 Göteborg ISBN: 978-91-86796-93-8 ISSN: 1401-5781 E-publishing: http://hdl. LÄS MER
5. Countdown to Armageddon : minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam in the latter days
Sammanfattning : Being both black and Islamic, the main subject of this study represents a combined opposition to "Americanity", i.e., the civil religion of the United States. LÄS MER
