{"product_id":"thug-criminology-9781487545574","title":"Thug Criminology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing in part on the lived experiences of contributors who have overcome a street life, Thug Criminology seeks to challenge the traditional scholarship on gangs and their behaviours.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony Gunter   Part I: They Don’t Give a F**k about Us! Defanging and Decolonizing the Criminological Enterprise   1. Problematizing Traditional Criminological Perspectives on Thugs and Gangs Olga Marques    2. The White Male Criminological Gaze as Pornography: The Quasi-Sexual Academic Obsession with Black “Gang Bangers” Anthony Gunter    3. Writing Themselves Out of Research: “Whitemaleness” and the Study of “Gang” Active Young Women Clare Choak 4. Somethin’ Doesn’t Seem Right: A Commentary on the “Scientific Method” and “Gang”Research Adam Ellis and Anthony Gunter   Part II: “Getting Over” and Inside the Ivory Tower   5. I Am (Not) What You Say I Am: The Colonizers’ “Gang” Gregory (Chris) Brown   6. A Black Scholar’s Intellectual Journey and Subsequent Perspective on the White Colonial “Gang” Project  Ian Joseph   7. Good Trouble: Creating Spaces for Criminalized Populations in the Ivory Tower Lily Gonzalez, Javier Rodriguez, and Robert Weide   Part III: Word on the Street   8. Shook Ones: An Insider’s Perspective on Trauma, PTSD, and the Reenactment of Street-Related Violence Adam Elis, Stephanie Belanger, and Luca Berardi   9. (De)Criminalizing the “Code of Silence\" – Reflections of a Former “Gangbanger” Turned Academic Anthony Hutchinson and Jared Millican    10. The Raid: State Violence and Traumatic Responses in the Lives of Black Women Melissa McLetchie   11a. Letter from the Streetz: Growing Up in the Gutter Chad Briand aka Turk    11b. Letter from the Streetz: Don’t Interrupt Me TG   11c. Letter from the Penetentiary: The Change in Me Alejandro Vivar   11d. Letter from the Streetz: Dear Hip Hop  Marcus Singleton aka Iomos Marad    Part IV: Decolonizing the Gang Industry   12. Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority Communities Anthony Gunter   13. A Violent Cure? Problematizing the “Cure Violence” Initiative Malte Riemann   14. When the System Harms: An Insider’s Perspective on the Negative Socio-psychological Impact of So-Called “Gang Intervention” Tammy Tinney   15. Fight Poverty, Fight Crime: A Justice Focused Approach for Toronto\/Canada Yafet Tewelde and Julet Allen   16. We Make the Path by Walking It: Repairing, Restoring, and Constructing Pathways Rick Kelly   Epilogue Adam Ellis   Contributor Biographies","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409164640599,"sku":"9781487545574","price":46.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487545574.jpg?v=1730505711","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thug-criminology-9781487545574","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}