Dealing, Music and Youth Violence: Neighbourhood Relational Change, Isolation and Youth Criminality

Front Cover\nDealing, Music and Youth Violence: Neighbourhood Relational Change, Isolation and Youth Criminality\nCopyright information\nDedication\nTable of contents\n1 Introduction: Nearly Two Decades of Concern, Yet Young People Are Still Dying\n	An overview of the context of knife crime and the efforts to address serious youth violence in the UK\n	Neighbourhood research\n	Neighbourhood crime: some theoretical underpinnings\n	Chapter structure\n2 The Wider Historical and Social Context of ‘Black Criminality’ and Youth Violence\n	Racism, resistance and addressing offending behaviour within a changing political climate\n	Historical context of migration, deprivation and racism\n	New Labour: new focus?\n	Serious youth violence and gangs branding\n	Understanding the impact of oppression, racism and policy failure on youth safety\n3 Exploring the Neighbourhood\n	Deprivation, population change, diversity and relational change\n	The people who make it all happen\n	St Mary’s young people\n	Taking a wider view\n	The built environment of the estate\n	Local concern and local action\n4 Localized Disempowerment and the Development of Criminal Cultures\n	How council interventions increased the space for a violent street culture to evolve\n	St Mary’s Estate youth project\n	Studio time\n	Early signs of youth violence\n	A new cooperative approach\n		Proposal\n	New values, relationships and statuses\n	Death, mourning and action\n5 All Alone: Youth Isolation and the Embedding of a Violent Street Culture\n	The emergence of street culture\n	Further isolation and the entrenchment of a violent street culture\n	Continuation and escalation\n	Professionalizing support, relational breakdown and increased violence\n6 Studio Time, Drill and the Criminalization of Black Culture\n	Drill: the sound of the estate\n	The attention economy\n	Police crackdowns and criminalization\n	Criminal personas or an artistic income stream?\n7 Separated, Isolated and Unconnected\n	Focusing on primary school children and leaving the olders to police enforcement\n	Residents standing up for themselves\n	Summer play scheme\n	Operation Shield\n	St Mary’s Football Project on the estate\n	Residents rebuilding their confidence and the failure of enforcement\n8 The New Normal: From Gang Violence to Individualized Danger and Child Criminal Exploitation\n	Disconnected simulation\n	From gang violence to criminal exploitation and individual risk\n	Lowered threshold\n	Violence normalization and desensitization\n	Criminal exploitation, desensitization and the new drivers of violence\n9 Learning from the Past or More of the Same\n	Shifting to a public health approach to tackling serious youth violence\n	Public health approach\n	A child first approach within youth justice\n	Supporting young people at risk of child criminal exploitation\n	A contextual approach to safeguarding young people from violence and criminal exploitation\n	Locally in Lambeth\n	Movement in the right direction\n	Protecting children at risk and trying to address the causes of youth violence\n10 Conclusion: Better Support but the Violence Remains\n	From enforcement led to a public health approach\n	Working together\n	Recommendations\n	Where are they now?\nReferences\nIndex