The Street Casino

Author : Simon Harding (Criminologist)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781447317197
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Author : Simon Harding
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447317181
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Street Casino written by Simon Harding and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gang violence is a continual problem in urban neighborhoods around the world. But most of our understanding of the violence and its causes comes through the lens of policing and crime control, with little attention to the role played by the structure, organization, and social makeup of a gang. The Street Casino offers new insight on that front, drawing on an extensive ethnographic study of gang members and community residents in South London. Simon Harding uses this new data to propose a new theoretical perspective on survival in violent street gangs, a constantly fluctuating life built on the accrual of ?street capital.”

Author : Harding, Simon
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447317203
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Street Casino written by Harding, Simon and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gang violence is on the increase in certain neighbourhoods. There is an urgent need for a fresh perspective that offers insight into gang structure, organisation and offending behaviour to explain this increase. Using the findings from an extensive ethnographic study of local residents, professionals and gang members in south London, and drawing on his vast experience and knowledge of the field, Simon Harding proposes a unique theoretical perspective on survival in violent street gangs. He applies Bourdieu’s principles of social field analysis and habitus to gangs, establishing them as a social arena of competition where actors struggle for distinction and survival, striving to become ‘players in the game’ in the ‘casino of life’. Success is determined by accruing and retaining playing chips – street capital. Harding’s dramatic and compelling insights depict gang life as one of constant flux, where players jostle for position, reputation, status and distinction. This perspective offers new evidence to the field that will help academics, students, practitioners and policy makers to understand the dynamics of gang behaviour and the associated risks of violence and offending. Simon Harding is currently a senior lecturer in criminology at Middlesex University, UK. He draws on 25 years of experience in research, public policy and project delivery as a crime reduction and community safety practitioner.

Author : Robert Stowe England
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313392900
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Author : Pete Earley
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307429733
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Author : Margaret Bonham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903155387
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Author : Peter Blauner
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453215255
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Author : Nicholas Pileggi
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504041623
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Casino written by Nicholas Pileggi and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story behind the Martin Scorsese film: A “riveting . . . account of how organized crime looted the casinos they controlled” (Kirkus Reviews). Focusing on Chicago bookie Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and his partner, Anthony Spilotro, and drawing on extensive, in-depth interviews, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Mafia classic Wiseguy—basis for the film Goodfellas—Nicholas Pileggi reveals how the pair worked together to oversee Las Vegas casino operations for the mob. He unearths how Teamster pension funds were used to take control of the Stardust and Tropicana and how Spilotro simultaneously ran a crew of jewel thieves nicknamed the “Hole in the Wall Gang.” For years, these gangsters kept a stranglehold on Sin City’s brightly lit nightspots, skimming millions in cash for their bosses. But the elaborate scheme began to crumble when Rosenthal’s disproportionate ambitions drove him to make mistakes. Spilotro made an error of his own, falling for his partner’s wife, a troubled showgirl named Geri. It would all lead to betrayal, a wide-ranging FBI investigation, multiple convictions, and the end of the Mafia’s longstanding grip on the multibillion-dollar gaming oasis in the midst of the Nevada desert. Casino is a journey into 1970s Las Vegas and a riveting nonfiction account of the world portrayed in the Martin Scorsese film of the same name, starring Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone. A story of adultery, murder, infighting, and revenge, this “fascinating true-crime Mob history” is a high-stakes page-turner (Booklist).

Author : Edwin Silberstang
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0375722491
Total Pages : 156 pages
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Author : Jean Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944877132
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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