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Slipping the Line

The Assembled Geographies of Gang Territories

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Authors:
  1. Amelia Curran

    1. University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada

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  • Brings together a new materialist approach to the study of criminal spaces
  • Studies gang territories as urban spaces
  • Expands gang research by highlighting gang behaviours and processes outside the scope of criminal enterprise

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This book brings a new spatial analysis to gang territories through the concept of the gang assemblage- the variety of actors, contexts, and practices that create and maintain these spaces. This conceptualization helps overcome the tendency of gang literature to succumb to the gang territorial trap, the tendency to assume gang territories are fixed and static containers of gang life. Drawing on multi-sited qualitative fieldwork in central Canada, interviews with gang and non-gang-affiliated residents, police, and administrators show gang territories being made material through a wide variety of daily embodied practices. Recognizing the role of multiple actors encourages a relational ethics of accountability between bodies, practices, and place that challenges the often-naturalized connections between race, space, and crime. Understanding gang space as enacted through embodied material practices provides an alternative way to think through, trace, and disrupt these associations.

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Invisibility, Materiality, and Gang Spaces

    • Amelia Curran
    Pages 1-26

  3. The Gang Assemblage

    • Amelia Curran
    Pages 27-54

  4. Gangs and Territory

    • Amelia Curran
    Pages 55-90

  5. Resident Bodies and Gang Territory

    • Amelia Curran
    Pages 91-124

  6. Policing the Box

    • Amelia Curran
    Pages 125-145

  7. Relational Ethics of Accountability

    • Amelia Curran
    Pages 147-160

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 161-190
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada

    Amelia Curran

About the author

Amelia Curran, PhD, is an Instructor in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. She has published in Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Critical Sociology, Critical Social Policy. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Slipping the Line

  • Book Subtitle: The Assembled Geographies of Gang Territories

  • Authors: Amelia Curran

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39278-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39277-1Published: 31 August 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39280-1Due: 01 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39278-8Published: 30 August 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 190

  • Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Critical Criminology

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