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Since rap music emerged in mainstream culture in the late 1980s, politicians have derided its lyrics and imagery as violent. Over the years, rap has become an easy target to blame for violence.
The pressure of needing to be a model minority — successful, quiet, hardworking — can force people to internalize their mental anguish and ends up leaving gaps in our mental health services.
Findings show that in the face of marginalisation and social exclusion, youth in gangs think that they have no options except violence to prove that they are ‘real’ men in their communities.
A lethal turf war between drug traffickers has terrorized Buenaventura, Colombia for months. Now protesters are demanding the government’s help to protect people in this mostly Black city.
Luck and tenacity paid off for some 15,000 migrants who may now pursue their asylum cases in the US But nearly 42,000 cases filed from Mexico under a Trump-era rule were already rejected.
A study shows that some Cape Town gangsters choose to stand alone, preferring their independence to taking orders from a gang boss.
Gun violence has killed hundreds of Americans, including kids, this summer. There are proven ways to bring peace to city streets, says an expert in violence prevention – but someone has to pay for it.
Even after becoming an ‘ex’, former gang members must still negotiate gang associations and activities in the communities they remain in.
A researcher who fled crime-beset Mexico returns to interview the drug cartels behind so much of the violence, asking 33 ‘narcos’ everything about their lives, from birth to their latest murder.
Faced with cutbacks to youth services and limited opportunities, risk-taking behaviour can, for some, become highly alluring.
Trump officials plan to send asylum seekers from the US to El Salvador while their claims are processed. That would expose these vulnerable people to grave dangers, says a political violence expert.
At present South Africa is simply placing a potentially dangerous market into the hands of criminal syndicates and international traffickers.
Successes by the army and police on the Cape Flats will depend entirely on levels of cooperation established on an ad hoc basis.
The relationship between street slang used by young people and secret codes deployed by gang members is not always straightforward.
The law aimed at fighting gangs lacks the power to disrupt their activities.
Law enforcement’s historical tendency to treat crimes committed by white power groups as isolated incidents has allowed them to flourish.
MS-13 is not the biggest or most violent gang in the US. But its grisly murders and Latino membership inflame Americans’ anxiety about immigration. GOP campaign ads stoke those fears to attack Democrats.
Toronto Mayor John Tory’s use of race-coded words to describe gun violence in Toronto, including “thugs, sewer rats and gangsters,” stokes racism and serves to justify policing Black communities.
The policing of black British culture has a long history.
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Lecturer in Policing Studies, School of Justice Studies., Liverpool John Moores University
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Honorary research affiliate, Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Media, University of Adelaide
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Director of the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Professor of Politics, Royal Holloway University of London
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Assistant Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Junior Researcher (Postdoc), The University of Queensland
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Director of Slang and New Language Archive, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College London
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Professor of Sociology, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Brighton
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Research Fellow (Henry Jackson Society - Centre on Radicalisation & Terrorism), Royal Holloway University of London
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Senior Research Fellow, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
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Professor, Center for Research on North America, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Lecturer in International Human Rights Law at Essex Law School, University of Essex
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PhD Candidate in Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool
