Thug Criminology

Thug Criminology
Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Country
CA
Published
17 October 2023
Pages
284
ISBN
9781487545574

Thug Criminology

Drawing in part on the lived experiences of contributors who have overcome a 'street life', Thug Criminology seeks to challenge the traditional scholarship on gangs and their behaviours.

Thug Criminology combines the urgent and as yet silenced voices of former gang/street-involved peoples turned academics, alongside their allies, in order to challenge and disrupt mainstream and academic knowledge about urban youth gangs specifically, and the 'streets' more broadly.

The book questions how the 'streets' - and the racialised and marginalised urban communities who inhabit them - are researched, taught, and subsequently politicised. It looks at who gets to produce such knowledge, who benefits from such knowledge, and whose voices are privileged within dominant academic and public policy discourses. Drawing on decolonising methodologies, the book seeks to give voice to scholars with lived experience of a 'street' or gang life. Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony Gunter reclaim the terms thug and gang to reconstruct the narrative around street-involved youth - seeing them not as criminals but rather as survivors of historical oppression and trauma. Challenging the colonial structure of criminology and other disciplines that focus on street crime, Thug Criminology aims to disrupt and disentangle the knowledge that has been produced on gangs and urban violence.

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