Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Youth, Social Control, and Surveillance
6. 1. Youth Experiences of Surveillance: A Cross- National Analysis 15
7. 2. From the Outside Looking In: Young People’s Perceptions of Risk and Danger in an East London Borough 31
8. Part 2. Street Youth, Homelessness, and Displacement
9. 3. Living Free: Nomadic Traveling Among Homeless Street Youth 47
10. 4. Street Youth in New York City and São Paulo: Deconstructing the Striking Differences, Global Similarities, and Local Specificities 62
11. 5. Searching for Home: Russian Street Youth and the Criminal Community 77
12. Part 3. Gangs and Street Cultures in the Globalized City
13. 6. Social Control and Street Gangs in Los Angeles 95
14. 7. Youth Subcultures, Resistance, and the Street Organization in Late Modern New York 114
15. 8. Children of the Land, Fruit of the Ghetto 133
16. 9. Victimization, Resistance, and Violence: Exploring the Links Between Girls in Gangs 147
17. Part 4. Youth, Violence, and Subcultures of Whiteness
18. 10. Ethnic Envy: How Teens Construct Whiteness in Globalized America 169
19. 11. An Extreme Response to Globalization: The Case of Racist Skinhead Youth 185
20. 12. Columbine: The School Shooting as a Postmodern Phenomenon 203
21. 13. ’Cause Fightin’ Is Just Fightin’: Caucasian Youth, Violence, and Social Exclusion in a Globalized Age 216
22. Part 5. Innovative Interventions and Youth in Crises
23. 14. Integrating Interventions: Outreach and Research Among Street Youth in the Rockies 235
24. 15. Youth Force in the South Bronx 262
25. 16. Motivating and Supporting Activist Youth: A View from Nonformal Settings 273
26. Appendix: Agents of Change Responding to Violence and Exclusion 287
27. Contributors 301
28. Index 307