Title Kebabs, kids, cops and crime : youth, ethnicity and crime / by Jock Collins ... [and others]

Published Annandale, N.S.W. : Pluto Press, 2000

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Description viii, 276 pages ; 22 cm regular print Contents 1. "Migrant crime link 'a lethal cocktail'" -- 2. Middle Eastern appearances: 'Ethnic gangs' and media panic -- 3. Crime and ethnicity in Australia: myths and realities -- 4. The context of 'ethnic crime' in Sydney: socioeconomic, cultural and spatial -- 5. 'Someone to fear': Lebanese youth, gangs, masculinity and racism -- 6. Cops, kids and minority culture -- 7. The politics of community -- 8. Learning from Lakemba Summary Exposes the fragility of Australian multiculturalism and the racism lurking behind media and political responses to crime. Drawing on new fieldwork, the book critically reviews the evidence about ethnic criminality in Australia, records and reviews the media's stereotypical response, and probes the issue of Lebanese gangs Analysis Crime Crime rate Ethnic relations Ethnic youth Federal issue Juvenile delinquency Police State issue Sydney Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [252]-268) and index Subject Crime and race -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) Crime and race -- Australia. Crime and race -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney Discrimination in law enforcement -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) Discrimination in law enforcement -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney Ethnicity -- Australia. Lebanese -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) Lebanese -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney Minority youth -- Australia -- Social conditions. Minority youth -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions. Minority youth -- Australia. Minority youth. Police services for juveniles -- Australia. Crime -- Australia -- Cross-cultural studies. Police services for juveniles. Social justice -- Australia. SUBJECT Sydney (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021855 -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005646 Author Collins, Jock, 1949- LC no. 2001320429 ISBN 1864031131

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