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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 Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 2008 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Globalizing the streets : cross-cultural perspectives on youth, social control, and empower- ment / Michael Flynn and David C. Brotherton, editors. p. cm. Includes index. isbn 978-0-231-12822-3 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-231-12823-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-231-50226-9 (ebook) 1. Street youth—Congresses. 2. Subculture—Congresses. 3. Gangs—Congresses. I. Flynn, Michael. II. Brotherton, David. HM646.G56 2008 305.235086'923091732—dc22 2007042589 Casebound editions of Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid- free paper. Printed in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 p 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Designed by Lisa Hamm References to Internet Web Sites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for Web sites that may have expired or changed since the book was prepared. 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.
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