黑暗生存:街角青年新时代街头生活研究

新时代背景下,街角青年的街头生活状态已有了新的变化。鉴于此,笔者使用田野调查的方法,通过参与式观察和深入访谈,对街角青年的街头生存状态进行调研。研究发现:街角青年处于“黑暗生存”状态,呈现出“黑暗的家庭生活、黑暗的街头空间、黑暗的帮派文化、黑暗的资产经营及黑暗的犯罪手段”等五大特征。     

解析"街角灰色社会"--以湖南长沙某区"街角DY帮派"为分析对象

"街角青年"是典型的城市边缘青年群落,由这个"灰色群体"所组成的亚文化社会已经成为对抗主流社会的"灰色社会".本文通过对长沙市某区一街角帮派的实证调查,解构街角帮派的结构权威,解读街角青年的身份忠诚,解析街角社会的隐性社会基础.     

“街角青年”生存调查

街角青年作为城市青年边缘群体的客观存在已经无可置疑,当前的任务不是去指责谁,而是要为街角青年的正常社会化与正常社会生活出计献策,帮助街角青年走出街角,参与到主流社会生活中去。     

“街角青年”生存调查

“街角青年”作为城市青年边缘群体的客观存在已经无可置疑，当前的任务不是去指责谁，而是要为“街角青年”的正常社会化与正常社会生活出计献策，帮助“街角青年”走出街角，参与到主流社会生活中去。     

城市社区中的"街角青年"问题研究——以湖南长沙某区为例

＂街角青年＂是城市中的一种特殊社会现象与社会问题,他们具有其独特的生活方式和社会心理特征,形成了与城市主流文化相对立的城市边缘亚文化,介乎主流文化视角下正常社会化的＂白色＂青少年和走向犯罪领域的＂黑色＂青少年之间,甚至成为城市社区建设和城市社会稳定的一大隐患。因此,城市社区如何把目光更多地投向边缘青年,关注边缘青年,理解边缘青年,是当前城市化进程中一个应该引起重视的问题。     

学术批评:青年研究亟待填补的洼地

学术批评是青年研究学术积累、学术提炼、学术提升的重要途径,应该始终伴随青年研究、青年学学科建设和发展的全过程。但当下学术批评常常处于低语甚至失语状态,成为青年研究领域的一块学术洼地。造成这种状态的原因主要包括对"问题导向"理解片面、学术焦点尚未聚集、学术视野狭窄、批评武器匮乏、"好人主义"盛行等。提升青年研究学术水平,促进青年学学科建设,需要形成和完善学术反思机制,使学术批评常态化和制度化。     

生活方式:世界青年研究热点

青年生活方式及其消费模式是当今世界青年研究的热点。鉴于社会对青年每天生活的了解常常被隔裂成局部的、阶段的、边缘性的状态,对青年整体,即从儿童、青少年到青年的每一项社会经济活动缺乏系统的研究,教育、经济、消费和社会领域的实际工作者已越来越强烈地要求理论研究人员从心     

行动倡导与近用媒体:青年公益组织的行动模式

青年公益组织的行动模式体现的是当代青年群体与当下社会关系及其互动结果,反映了社会系统中的规则和资源对青年公益组织的制约与促进。对G市3个青年公益组织的研究发现,青年公益组织的行动模式具有"行动倡导"和"近用媒体"的特点。在青年公益组织的成长过程中,社会公益孵化机构和大众传播媒介的公益报道发挥了明显的扶助作用,青年公益活动的倡导模式来自公益孵化组织的传授和公益传统,体现了青年公益人群的行动特点,而报纸的公益报道则提高了青年公益活动的社会认可程度。     

青年研究的新角度:青年文化研究

一、青年文化研究的必然性在我国,科学地研究青年,也就是将青年研究作为一种学术理论研究的历史较短,七十年代末期以前,青年研究只是一般性的工作研究,而且主要偏重于对青年的政治思想教育方面。七十年代末期以后,随着青年问题的普遍化和尖锐化(当时的青年问题有:“民主”青年问题、青少年犯罪问题、青年就业问题、青年信仰危机问题、知青返     

寻找原动力——城市街角空间建设现状与机制研究

城市街角空间作为城市公共空间不可或缺的部分,因其广泛的渗透性和可达性对提升城市品质与活力具有积极高效的作用。本文界定了城市街角空间的定义,分析了街角空间对城市活力的提升作用,及通过文献调查和现场调查的方法来分析与阐述我国城市街角空间建设现状并剖析其深层原因,认为解决我国当前城市街角空间现状最迫切的在于制定合理有效的建设机制,通过国外文献及数据调研分析,对比了国内外城市街角空间建设机制,最后结合现状提出对我国的城市街角空间建设有可行性的机制。     

Crime, Crime News, and Crime Views

This paper compares police, newspaper, television, and publicimages of crime trends for the seven FBI index crimes over time,the relative frequency of occurrence of these offenses, andthe characteristics of persons committing them. Media presentationsof crime trends over time are found generally unrelated to trendsin police statistics. Newspaper presentation of the relativedistribution of crimes approximates police figures more closelythan does the television presentation. Public views of the relativedistribution of crimes but not of crime trends more closelyapproximate media presentations than police presentations. Television'simpact on public views of crime is apparently minor. Reasonsfor these findings and their implications for crime news reportingare discussed.     

Isn’t Every Crime a Hate Crime?: The Case for Hate Crime Laws

The process to create hate crime laws in the United States has wrestled with the core issues of freedom of speech and greater harm. This article looks at the evolution of bias crime laws, culminating with President Obama’s signing of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009. The constitutionality of the laws is ‘discussed and suggestions for sociological research are made. Four elements of hate crime laws are discussed; criminality, intent, perception, and protected statuses. The logic of hate crime laws is based on the argument that hate crimes are a form of terrorism, designed to intimidate large groups of people. Readers should be familiar with the basic case for the existence of such laws.     

Crime and partnerships

This paper tests whether being convicted of a crime affects marriage market outcomes. While it is relatively well documented that crime hurts in terms of reduced future income, there has been little systematic analysis on the association between crime and marriage market outcomes. This paper exploits a detailed Danish register-based data set to fill this gap in the literature. The main findings are that male convicts do not face lower transition rates into partnerships as such, but they face a lower chance of forming partnerships with females from more well-off families. In addition males who are convicted face a significantly higher dissolution risk than their law abiding counterparts.     

The Network Structure of Crime

From theoretical physics to field‐driven anthropology, researchers are increasingly exploring how the connections among individuals, amoebas, brain cells, organizations, and institutions affect what we feel, think, and do. However, the application of social network analysis to the study of crime, deviance, and violence has arrived a bit late to this network turn in the social and behavioral science. I argue that this network turn in the social sciences be an important turning point in the study of crime and deviance, but only if taken as an opportunity to evaluate our core theoretical principles and consider new ways to understand and measure them. The goal of this essay is to take stock of the state of the field, while also providing a moment of pause to consider some fruitful ways of advancing this line of inquiry.     

Narratives of Crime and Criminals: How Places Socially Construct the Crime Problem1

A common narrative about crime in the contemporary United States is that offenders are primarily young black men living in poor urban neighborhoods committing violent and drug‐related crimes. There is also a local context to community, crime, and fear that influences this narrative. In this article, I address how narratives of crime and criminals play out differently within particular places. The article is based on participant observation and interviews conducted in two high‐crime Boston‐area communities. Although both communities are concerned with stereotypical offenders, there are differential community constructions of crime, formed through interactions between crime narratives and place identities. In one, crime is a community problem, in which both offenders and victims are community members. In the other, outsiders commit crime against community members. Media portrayals of crime and community, community race and class identities, and concerns over neighborhood change all contribute to place‐specific framing of “the crime problem.” These frames, in turn, shape both intergroup dynamics and support for criminal justice policy.     

Crime and International Tourism

Using a panel data set of European countries, this paper investigates the impact of crime on international tourism. Violent crimes are negatively associated with incoming international tourists and international tourism revenue indicating that international tourists consider the risk of victimization when choosing a location to visit. This impact is smaller in magnitude in Southern European countries with a coastline which are generally more attractive tourist destinations in terms of sea tourism, suggesting that victimization risk and attractiveness of the destination may be substitutable traits.     

Exploring the Social Construction of Crime by Neighborhood: News Coverage of Crime in Boston

ABSTRACT

Information disseminated by the news shapes the way that the public perceives criminal events, often providing a distorted view of crime. Previous research has largely overlooked neighborhoods in discussions of how the news portrays crime. This study examines the ways that the news media report the neighborhoods in which homicides, robberies, and assaults are committed. Multiple theoretical perspectives rooted in the law of opposites and racial typification provide differing explanations for the reporting of crime. Using Boston as a test site, this study employs a content analysis of The Boston Globe crime articles to identify the neighborhoods in which instances of homicide, robbery, and assault receive coverage. A comparison with official crime data from the Boston Police Department suggests differences in neighborhood reporting trends for robbery and assault but not for homicide. Specifically, the news media tend to disproportionately report more robberies and assaults in neighborhoods with lower levels of neighborhood disadvantage. Implications for the social construction of crime and neighborhoods as well as criminal justice response for disadvantaged neighborhoods are discussed.