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The White Male Criminological Gaze as Pornography: The Quasi-Sexual Academic Obsession with Black “Gang Bangers”
No full textIn this chapter, Anthony Gunter examines race/racism and the problematic question of gangs. He provocatively compares the white male academic’s voyeuristic obsession with urban Black ‘gang bangers’ to that of consumers of pornography seeking cheap thrills and sexual gratification. However, when one takes into consideration colonialism, slavery and 500 year history of the criminalization and violent oppression of Black bodies – and the role of the Euro-American academy – it is glaringly obvious that white males’ [not only scholars but also law enforcement, politicians, and journalists], quasi-sexual obsession goes way beyond gangs, but right back to the slave ships and plantations of the New World
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Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority Communities
No full textIn this chapter, Anthony Gunter outlines how in response to England’s ‘violent crime epidemic’ there is now a great upsurge of media-driven political interest in this perspective – specifically, the Violence Reduction Unit of Police Scotland. He maintains that the public health approach fails to resolve fundamental questions about structural inequality, the criminalisation process and state racism. Moreover, instead of being a panacea, the chapter concludes by asserting that the crime as contagious virus perspective runs the risk of further stigmatising already problematised Black and minority communities
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Somethin’ Doesn’t Seem Right: A Commentary on the “Scientific Method” and “Gang”Research
No full textIn this chapter, Adam Ellis and Anthony Gunter provide a critique [drawing on the first author’s direct experience as a student criminologist] of the social-“scientific” research methodologies that have been utilized by gang scholars for more than a century. During this period of history, largely privileged white Euoro-American academic ‘colonisers’ have created knowledge that has served to problematize, criminalize and ‘other’ indigenous, non-white and poor communities. Consequently, only one side of the story is/has ever been told; as such the chapter concludes by asserting the need for a new ‘criminology’, one which recognizes its privilege, and one which is open to transformation
The Trouble with Black (Male) Youth
No full textAnthony Gunter summarises his study into the reality, rather than the criminogenic stereotypes, of young Black males' lived experiences
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Thug Criminology: A Call to Action
No full textThug Criminology combines the urgent and as yet silenced voices of former gang/street-involved peoples turned academics, alongside their allies, in order to challenge and disrupt mainstream and academic knowledge about urban youth gangs specifically, and the "streets" more broadly.
The book questions how the "streets" – and the racialized and marginalized urban communities who inhabit them – are researched, taught, and subsequently politicized. It looks at who gets to produce such knowledge, who benefits from such knowledge, and whose voices are privileged within dominant academic and public policy discourses. Drawing on decolonizing methodologies, the book seeks to give voice to scholars with lived experience of a "street" or gang life. Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony Gunter reclaim the terms thug and gang to reconstruct the narrative around street-involved youth – seeing them not as criminals but rather as survivors of historical oppression and trauma. Challenging the colonial structure of criminology and other disciplines that focus on street crime, Thug Criminology aims to disrupt and disentangle the knowledge that has been produced on gangs and urban violence
Interview with Anthony F. Janson
No full textAnthony F. Janson is a retired professor and former Department Chair for the UNCW Department of Art and Theatre [retired December 2002]. This interview covers his complete life and career. He discusses his relationship with his art historian father, H.W. Janson, including his relationship as son and co-author and editor of the Janson texts on art history. The interview covers Tony's career as a scholar, book editor, author, art museum curator [at Indianapolis Art Museum and North Carolina Art Museum], and as a professor. Throughout, he comments on important artists in history and his philosophy of art history. He also includes stories of his time in the Vietnam War
Interview with Anthony F. Janson
No full textAnthony F. Janson is a retired professor and former Department Chair for the UNCW Department of Art and Theatre [retired December 2002]. This interview covers his complete life and career. He discusses his relationship with his art historian father, H.W. Janson, including his relationship as son and co-author and editor of the Janson texts on art history. The interview covers Tony's career as a scholar, book editor, author, art museum curator [at Indianapolis Art Museum and North Carolina Art Museum], and as a professor. Throughout, he comments on important artists in history and his philosophy of art history. He also includes stories of his time in the Vietnam War
Letter from Anthony Brummelkamp to Mrs. G. Groen van Prinsterer
No full textIn a letter to Mrs. G. Groen van Prinsterer from Rev. Anthony Brummelkamp, the author is clearing up some statements of Rev. Budding and chiding Rev. Hendrik Scholte for having an arrogant and sharp tone. A foonote to the letter mentions the school operated by Rev. Brummelkamp and Rev. Albertus C. Van Raalte in Arnhem.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/1193/thumbnail.jp
From bad to worse? Marginalised youth and ‘Road life’ (mis)representations and realities
No full textConsidering the rich history of academic research examining working class youth subcultures in post War Britain, it is interesting to note that contemporary youth cultural studies and in particular ‘post modern subcultural theory’ (Blackman, 2005) has largely moved away from studying deviant and/or resistant cultures of poor and marginalised youth. Instead the field has been left to a small but growing number of youth gang criminologists who are largely detached from the ongoing debates about youth subcultures, transitions, identities, race/ethnicity, hybridity, and agency (see for example Alexander, 2000; Cohen and Ainley, 2000; McDonald et al., 2001; Bose, 2003; Nayak, 2003; Sanders, 2005; Gidley, 2007; Gunter, 2010). Consequently, rather than challenging police-media driven discourses that portray contemporary urban youth cultures as inherently violent and criminogenic, gang academics have similarly tended to fixate solely on the negative aspects of the ‘Road based’ subcultures and lifestyles of marginalised urban youth
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