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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"gangsters"”.
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Educating 'Gangsters': Social space, informal learning and becoming 'Gang' involved
This research focuses on the previously neglected topic of how people are educated into groups commonly described as ‘gangs’; in particular, this thesis outlines the role that social space plays in such educative processes. This focus enables both a new contribution to knowledge in the field of …
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Original Gangsters: Genre, Crime, and the Violences of Settler Democracy
… white supremacy into one that scapegoated Black gangsters; and in the U.S., through the mass-entertainment industry’s erasure of fugitivity in pop versions of the gangsta-rap subgenre of trap music—a contemporary version of the sleight-of-hand necessary to reproduce slavery, as Harriet Jacobs …
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Style, structure and function in Cape Town Tsotsitaal
… perceived by many respondents as a language of gangsters and criminals, evidence suggests that it is actually part of an ongoing identity construction for young, black, primarily male urban township residents in South Africa, which is performed through a subcultural style. By applying …
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Drugs, police inefficiencies and gangsterism in violently impoverished communities like Overcome
… such as police, and private criminals, such as gangsters, work together in a multitude of ways in a bid to acquire wealth, most notably through an illicit drug market today dominated by ‘tik’. It is shown that this violent narcotics market binds police and gangsters together at the expense of …
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Municipal regulation of food and waste pickers on landfill sites in South Africa: What should municipalities (dis)allow?
… be faced with crime on landfills with gangsters robbing them of their recyclables and/or hard earned money.
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The Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County, Illinois, 1923--1926
… and defeated in the battles with the bootlegging gangsters, the Ku Klux Klan demised as quickly as it had grown in Williamson County."
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Situating Females in UK Gangs: An Exploratory Study
… the UK reporting stereotypical images of girl ‘gangsters’ as malicious violent aggressors (Young, 2009). This intense media scrutiny has distracted from the ‘necessary and long overdue focus’ of research into female gang membership (Chesney-Lind and Hagedorn, 1999). Research that has …
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How can Cape Flats youth overcome Environmental circumstance by using their Personal potential?
… members of the Cape Flats are not criminals or gangsters. However, most research utilizes a deficit paradigm; exclusively emphasizing the negative conditions in these disadvantaged districts. A qualitative Grounded Theory methodology was employed to address this gap by incorporating corporate …
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Narratives of gang desistance amongst former gang members
… that interventions that assist desisting gangsters are targeted not only on an individual level, but a contextual level too, ensuring that individuals have access to the kinds of resources in their environment that will support their desistance.
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Children’s perceptions of the natural environment: creating child and environmentally friendly cities
… by crime, violence, pollution, and a haven for gangsters. The participants’ worldviews appear to be permeated with this milieu of danger which is pervasive in their community. Although the participants express the need to engage in the NE, their mobility is greatly restricted due to their own, …
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The road to Absalom
… and his eventual disappearance. Local gangsters tell David more about Absalom's life as a criminal and an exile from his own family, circumstances which led him to move to Soweto. David drives across the interior of South Africa to Soweto, but does not find Absalom. His contact there …
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The Function of Physical Space in the Cuban Novel of the 1950s
… in La trampa demonstrates that not only are gangsters, policemen and homosexuals shown to occupy particularly challenged positions, but also that constructions of mainstream Cuban masculinity are under threat. The conclusion compares the function of spaces across all four novels, adding new …
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The postdramatic theatre of Athol Fugard and Maishe Maponya: commitment, collaboration, and experiment in apartheid South Africa
… with actors. The Hungry Earth (1979), Gangsters (1984) and Jika (1986) also pass the litmus test because they are Maponya’s most radical indictment of the apartheid regime and because they were also devised through experiments with actors who provided material and acting. In contrast to …