书目名称 | Rethinking Knife Crime | 副标题 | Policing, Violence a | 编辑 | Elaine Williams,Peter Squires | 视频video | | 概述 | Critically engages students with learning exercises.Critically unpacks the global knife crime crisis, from authors with over a decade of experience.Draws on new empirical data on policing, popular nar | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This critical textbook looks beyond the immediate data on knife crime to try and make sense of what is a global phenomenon. Yet it especially explores why the UK in particular has become so preoccupied by this form of interpersonal, often youthful, violence. The book explores knife crime in its global and historical context and examines crime patterns including the “second wave” of knife crime in Britain. It then incorporates new empirical data to explore key themes including: police responses, popular narratives, and the various interests benefiting from the ‘knife crime industry‘. It captures the “voices” of those impacted by knife crime including young people, community leaders, and youth work practitioners. Drawing on criminology, sociology, cultural studies and history, the book argues that the problem is firmly located at the intersection of a series of concerns about class, race, gender and generationthat are a product of British history and its global past. It seeks to trace the several roots of the contemporary knife crime ‘epidemic‘, ultimately to propose newer and alternative strategies for responding to it. It encourages a critical engagement with this subject, with th | 出版日期 | Textbook 2021 | 关键词 | Gangs; youth violence; weapons; crime prevention; violence; violence prevention; policing; youth crime; crim | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83742-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-83741-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-83742-6 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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