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The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Gangs in the UK

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Editors:
  1. Paul Andell

    1. University of Suffolk, Ipswich, UK

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  2. John Pitts

    1. Vauxhall Centre for the Study of Crime, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK

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  • Provides the authoritative research collection on youth gangs across the UK
  • Addresses current issues facing the UK: county lines, prison gangs, racial disproportionality, and governmental response
  • Covers the debates, theories, policy, prevention and practice

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Paul Andell, John Pitts
    Pages 1-17

  3. The Evolution of the UK Street Gang

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Theorising Gangs: Towards a Critical Realist Moral Theory of Youth Gangs

      • Paul Andell, David James
      Pages 21-40

    3. Reluctant Gangsters Revisited

      • Andrew Whittaker, Tirion Harvard
      Pages 41-56

    4. County Lines: Dealing in Vulnerability

      • Simon Harding
      Pages 57-88

  4. International Comparisons

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. US and UK Gangs: Research, Policy and Practice

      • James Densley
      Pages 91-110

    3. Gangs and a Global Sociological Imagination

      • John Hagedorn, Alistair Fraser
      Pages 111-140

    4. ‘Why Them?’ ‘Why Then?’ ‘Why There?’: The Political Economy of Gangland

      • John Pitts
      Pages 141-169
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About this book

This handbook brings together cutting-edge research from key contributors on the rapidly expanding and fast-changing field of UK youth gangs. It examines the contours of the academic debates, describes and explains the origins and evolution of violent street gangs in the UK against a backdrop of globalization, and discusses the factors surrounding the emergence of these gangs in each of the four UK nations and some English regions. It also examines the relationship between gangs and wider issues relating to gender, ethnicity, drug distribution and organised crime. It critically assesses the potential and limitations of ‘Public Health’ approaches to gang violence reduction and the government’s policy responses to violent street gangs in the UK. Providing a broad examination of the latest UK gangs research, with international comparisons, it is essential reading for undergraduate and post-graduate students, in criminology, sociology, social policy and law, policy makers at local and central government level, and practitioners in the fields of law, policing, youth work, social work, housing and workers in dedicated voluntary sector organizations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Suffolk, Ipswich, UK

    Paul Andell

  • Vauxhall Centre for the Study of Crime, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK

    John Pitts

About the editors

Paul Andell is BAIF (British Academy Innovation Fellow) Associate Professor Criminology at the University of Suffolk, UK. He has more than 25 years experience of working in the criminal justice field. 


John Pitts is Vauxhall Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Bedfordshire and Visiting Professor of Criminology at the Universities of Kent and Suffolk, UK.


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