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Criminalising the other: challenging the race–gang nexus

Williams, Patrick·2015·Race & Class
DOI 10.1177/0306396814556221
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Whilst criminologists, sociologists and policy-makers fuel a perennial debate over the existential value of the ‘gang’, 1 the Criminal Justice System (CJS) in England and Wales creeps further into the lives of marginalised and excluded young Black men who have been identified as ‘gang-involved’, a ‘gang-concern’ or ‘associated’ with a gang. Drawing on research commissioned by two North West (English) Local Authority Crime Reduction Partnerships, this article offers a unique insight into the problematic way that the term ‘gang’ is being appropriated and used by criminal justice agencies. The findings suggest that the ‘gang’ label legitimises the over-policing of Black people and communities and acts as an inhibitor to the reconciliation of other, more acute, socio-economic problems endured within Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities. Inspired by the paper ‘White sociology, black struggle’, 2 this article is concerned with the problematising effects and the enduring features of the gang construct as a ‘signifier’ for Black men. More contentiously, it highlights the contribution of criminology to the Othering of young Black men, to show that the contemporary position of young Black men as significantly overrepresented and differentially treated within the CJS reflects a continuity with the idea of the ‘Black folk devil’ inherent within a burgeoning body of ‘uncritical’ criminology.

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  1. Hallsworth S., 2014, Youth and Policy, 4, 35
  2. Peachey P., 2013, The Independent
  3. Amos V., 1982, Rethinking Social Inequality
  4. O’Carroll L., 2011, The Guardian
  5. Toy J., 2008, Metropolitan Police Service
  6. Antrobus S., 2009, Dying to Belong: an in-depth review of street gangs in Britain
  7. 10.7208/chicago/9780226190174.001.0001 · DOI · Paper page
  8. Hallsworth, 2012, Youth and Policy
  9. 2008, (Re)thinking Gangs
  10. Williams, 2014, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
  11. Kundnani A., 2009, Spooked! How not to prevent violent extremism
  12. Williams, 2014, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies

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Authors
Williams, P.
Corresponding author
Williams, Patrick
Venue
Race & Class
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2014-12-24
Volume
56
Issue
3
Pages
18-35
ISSN
  • 0306-3968 (ISSN-L)
  • 1741-3125
DOI
10.1177/0306396814556221
OpenAlex
W2080093981
Cited by
100
References
27
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1
FWCI
6.51
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Race & Class (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
  • Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
Keywords
young Black men, over-policing, othering, Black and minority ethnic communities, criminal justice system, racial discrimination in policing, socioeconomic deprivation, signifier, England and Wales

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