The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Gangs in the UK

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: The Evolution of the UK Street Gang.- Chapter 2: Theorising Gangs.- Chapter 3: Reluctant Gangsters 'Revisited.- Chapter 4: County Lines; Dealing in Vulnerability.- Part II: International Comparisons.- Chapter 5: US and UK Gangs: Models, Policy and Practice.- Chapter 6: Gangs and a Global Sociological Imagination.- Chapter 7: Why them?' 'Why then?' 'Why there?': The Political Economy of Gangland.- Part III: Nations and Regions.- Chapter 8: Gangs, Gang Evolution and Young People's Involvement in Drug Supply and Distribution in Scotland.- Chapter 9: Gangs Young People and Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland.- Chapter 10: Youth Gangs in Wales.- Chapter 11: Gangs in Liverpool: Scouse Soldiers init? Urban Street Gangs on Merseyside.- Part IV: Race and Gender.- Chapter 12: Supporting young women affected by gang association and county lines.- Chapter 13: The alchemy of race and rights': The logic of historicizing the contemporary racialized youth and gang phenomenon.- Chapter 14: Race and Gangs: Towards a Black Criminology.- Chapter 15: Black Lives Matter in Gang Research.- Chapter 16: The Boys.- Chapter 17: The Pakistani Muslim Community, Street Gangs & the Heroin Trade.- Part V: Gangs and the Justice System.- Chapter 18: Policing UK Street Gangs.- Chapter 19: Evidence in Gang-related Prosecutions.- Chapter 20: Gangs in Prisons.- Chapter 21: County Lines and Prisons.- Part VI: Policy and Practice.- Chapter 22: The English Street Gang & Government Policy.- Chapter 23: Youth Work & Gang Violence Reduction.- Chapter 24: Safeguarding, Young People & Gangs.- Chapter 25: The Premier League: Breaking the Cycle of Gang Violence.- Chapter 26: Using Ex-Gang Members as Peer Youth Workers.- Chapter 27: Voices from Gang Affected Communities.