Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment

330 Pages·2008·6.488 MB·English

by  Fabiola Salek (editor), David C. Brotherton Ph.D. (editor)

Globalizing the Streets

Michael Flynn and David C. Brotherton, editors
Globalizing the Streets
Cross- Cultural Perspectives on Youth,
Social Control, and Empowerment
Columbia University Press New York
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Globalizing the streets : cross-cultural perspectives on youth, social control, and empower-
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Includes index.
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isbn 978-0-231-50226-9 (ebook)
1. Street youth—Congresses. 2. Subculture—Congresses. 3. Gangs—Congresses. I. Flynn,
Michael. II. Brotherton, David.
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Title page photograph copyright © 2001 Donna DeCesare.
To my girls, Yolanda, Olivia, and Antonia
and to my dad
( M. F.)
to Lisa, Gijs, Mia, and Aidan
( D.C. B.)
and to Dwight Conquergood
(D.C. B. and M. F.)

Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part 1. Youth, Social Control, and Surveillance
1. Youth Experiences of Surveillance: A Cross- National Analysis 15
MARTIN RUCK, ANITA HARRIS, MICHELLE FINE, AND NICK FREUDENBERG
2. From the Outside Looking In: Young People’s Perceptions of Risk and Danger
in an East London Borough 31
SIMON HALLSWORTH AND JANET RANSOM
Part 2. Street Youth, Homelessness, and Displacement
3. Living Free: Nomadic Traveling Among Homeless Street Youth 47
MARNI FINKELSTEIN, RICHARD CURTIS, AND BARRY SPUNT
4. Street Youth in New York City and São Paulo: Deconstructing the Striking
Differences, Global Similarities, and Local Specificities 62
BENEDITO RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS
5. Searching for Home: Russian Street Youth and the Criminal Community 77
SVETLANA STEPHENSON
Part 3. Gangs and Street Cultures in the Globalized City
6. Social Control and Street Gangs in Los Angeles 95
JAMES DIEGO VIGIL
7. Youth Subcultures, Resistance, and the Street Organization in Late Modern
New York 114
DAVID C. BROTHERTON
viii Contents
8. Children of the Land, Fruit of the Ghetto 133
ANA DAZA, DAVID C. BROTHERTON, GIPSY ESCOBAR, AND MICHAEL FLYNN
9. Victimization, Resistance, and Violence: Exploring the Links Between Girls
in Gangs 147
DANA M. NURGE AND MICHAEL SHIVELY
Part 4. Youth, Violence, and Subcultures of Whiteness
10. Ethnic Envy: How Teens Construct Whiteness in Globalized America 169
RANDY BLAZAK
11. An Extreme Response to Globalization: The Case of Racist Skinhead Youth 185
PETE SIMI AND BARBARA BRENTS
12. Columbine: The School Shooting as a Postmodern Phenomenon 203
RALPH W. LARKIN
13. ’Cause Fightin’ Is Just Fightin’: Caucasian Youth, Violence, and
Social Exclusion in a Globalized Age 216
MICHAEL FLYNN
Part 5. Innovative Interventions and Youth in Crises
14. Integrating Interventions: Outreach and Research Among Street Youth
in the Rockies 235
JEAN SCANDLYN, SUZANNE DISCENZA, AND JAMES VAN LEEUWEN
15. Youth Force in the South Bronx 262
BARRY CHECKOWAY, LISA FIGUEROA, AND KATIE R ICHARDS- SCHUSTER
16. Motivating and Supporting Activist Youth: A View from Nonformal Settings 273
LEONISA ARDIZZONE
Appendix: Agents of Change Responding to Violence and Exclusion 287
DONNA DECESARE
Contributors 301
Index 307
Acknowledgments
We would like to fi rst thank the intelligent, patient, and supportive folks at Columbia
University Press—especially the late John Michel, Lauren Dockett, and Susan Pensak.
We would also would also like to thank Basil Wilson and Gerald Lynch of John Jay Col-
lege of Criminal Justice who both supported and defended the conference that served
as the mother of this book. We would also like to recognize Dwight Conquergood,
Hector Torres, “China” Valdez, Richie Perez, and Rita Fecher, all founding members of
the conference and now playing with the street angels in a globalized heaven. Finally,
we would like to note the fi ne work of Henry Chalfant and Luis Barrios as well as the
William T. Grant Foundation for their generous support of the conference.