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Globalizing the streets : cross-cultural perspectives on youth, social control, and empowerment / Michael Flynn and David C. Brotherton, editors.

Other author/creatorFlynn, Michael, 1962-
Other author/creatorBrotherton, David.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionviii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Part 1. Youth, social control, and surveillance : Youth experiences of surveillance: a cross-national analysis / Martin Ruck, ... [et al.] -- From the outside looking in: young people's perceptions of risk and danger in an east London borough / Simon Hallsworth and Janet Ransom -- Part 2. Street youth, homelessness, and displacement : Living free: nomadic traveling among homeless street youth / Marni Finkelstein, Richard Curtis, and Barry Spunt -- Street youth in New York City and São Paulo: deconstructing the striking differences, global similarities, and local specificities / Benedito Rodrigues Dos Santos -- Searching for home: Russian street youth and the criminal community / Svetlana Stephenson -- Part 3. Gangs and street cultures in the globalized city : Social control and street gangs in Los Angeles / James Diego Vigil -- Youth subcultures, resistance, and the street organization in late modern New York / David C. Brotherton -- Children of the land, fruit of the ghetto / Ana Daza, ... [et al.] -- Victimization, resistance, and violence: exploring the links between girls in gangs / Dana M. Nurge and Michael Shively -- Part 4. Ethnic envy: how teens construct whiteness in globalized America / Randy Blazak -- An extreme response to globalization: the case of racist skinhead youth / Pete Simi and Barbara Brents -- Columbine: the school shooting as a postmodern phenomenon / Ralph W. Larkin -- 'Cause fightin' is just fightin': Caucasian youth, violence and social exclusion in a globalized age / Michael Flynn -- Part 5. Innovative interventions and youth in crises : Integrating interventions: outreach and research among street youth in the Rockies / Jean Scandlyn, Suzanne Discenza, and James van Leeuwen -- Youth force in the South Bronx / Barry Checkoway, Lisa Figueroa, and Katie Richards-Schuster -- Motivating and supporting activist youth: a view from nonformal stetting / Leonisa Ardizzone -- Appendix: Agents of change responding to violence and exclusion / Donna Decesare.
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007042589
ISBN9780231128223 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0231128223 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780231128230 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0231128231 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780231502269 (ebook)
ISBN0231502265 (ebook)

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Joyner General Stacks HM646 .G56 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold