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The culture and politics of contemporary street gang memoirs (2012)
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Metcalf, J. (2012). The culture and politics of contemporary street gang memoirs. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi. https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781617032813.001.0001

The publication of Sanyika Shakur's Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member in 1993 generated a huge amount of excitement in literary circles-New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani deemed it a "shocking and galvanic book"-and set off a... Read More about The culture and politics of contemporary street gang memoirs.

Cultures of desistance: Rehabilitation, reintegration and ethnic minorities (2012)
Book
Calverley, A. (2012). Cultures of desistance: Rehabilitation, reintegration and ethnic minorities. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203105658

© 2013 Adam Calverley. In contrast to the widespread focus on ethnicity in relation to engagement in offending, the question of whether or not processes associated with desistance – that is the cessation and curtailment of offending behaviour – vary... Read More about Cultures of desistance: Rehabilitation, reintegration and ethnic minorities.