Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Youth in crisis?; Chapter 1 Perpetual novelty: Youth, modernity and historical amnesia; Chapter 2 Youth gangs and late Victorian society; Chapter 3 'It's just an area -- everybody represents it': Exploring young people's territorial behaviour in British cities; Chapter 4 Collateral damage: Territory and policing in an English gang city; Chapter 5 Place, territory and young people's identity in the 'new' Northern Ireland
Summary
Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'. Comprising a series of essays from leading national and international researchers, this book subjects such claims to rigorous critical€scrutiny. It provides a challenging and authoritative account of complex questions pertaining to urban youth identities, crime and social order
