Gangs

This dissertation engages notions of the contemporary American ghetto as a distinct socio-spatial order, one marked by extreme isolation. This engagement is through exploration of the ghetto as an alternative socio-spatial order, distinguished by cosmopolitanism and the role som…

This study seeks to understand how individuals who have renounced their affiliations to violent organizations, referred to as "formers," make sense of their transformation through a morphological analysis of their narratives to uncover possible ways this process of renunciation …

Although the government of the United States of America was established to protect the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness among all American citizens, this thesis argues intractable gang violence in inner-city Chicago has persistently denied these rights, in tu…

In recent years urban violence has become understood as a 'reproduced', multi-causal and socially generated phenomenon. Less is understood about why young men reproduce the majority of this violence. This thesis uses original empirical data based on thirty-two life-histories of …

This dissertation is an empirical study of the genesis of the relationship between state-sanctioned “youth groups” and the army before and during Indonesia's New Order (1965–1998). Who were they, what function did they serve, and how did they come to play a major role in Indones…