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Book SynopsisDrawing 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
