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Disputed definitions and fluid identities: the limitations of social profiling In relation to ethnic youth gangs

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posted on 2023-05-16, 22:21 authored by Robert WhiteRobert White
This article provides a critique of social profiling in relation to ethnically identified youth gangs by considering the fluid nature of social identity and the ambiguities of gang formation. It begins by outlining the nature of youth group affiliation and association, and the multilayered ways in which social identity is constructed. This is followed by a brief review of key propositions relating to youth gangs, derived from international gang research over the last decade. The final section of the paper presents two models of social profiling, one of which is based upon actual criminal events, the other on prediction of 'risk'. It is argued that anti-gang intervention based upon a type of social profiling that net-widens will most likely compound the very problem it is intended to address.

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Publication title

Youth Justice

Volume

8

Pagination

149-161

ISSN

1473-2254

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Place of publication

Los Angeles

Rights statement

Copyright 2008 The National Association for Youth Justice

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Employment patterns and change

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