04275nam 22007695 450 991034937210332120200630045711.03-030-18426-910.1007/978-3-030-18426-1(CKB)4100000009152671(MiAaPQ)EBC5887789(DE-He213)978-3-030-18426-1(PPN)248605151(EXLCZ)99410000000915267120190828d2019 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Gangs of Bangladesh Mastaans, Street Gangs and ‘Illicit Child Labourers’ in Dhaka /by Sally Atkinson-Sheppard1st ed. 2019.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2019.1 online resource (210 pages) illustrationsPalgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia3-030-18425-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction -- 2. Bangladesh -- 3. Theorising Organised Crime, Gangs and Street Children’s Agency -- 4. The Bangladesh Mafia’: Mastaans and the Market for Social Protection -- 5. ‘Illicit Child Labourers’: Exploring Street Children’s Involvement in Organised Crime -- 6. Street Children and ‘Protective Agency’ -- 7. ‘Illicit Labour’ and Children’s Culpability: Implications for Penology and Criminal Justice Responses -- 8. Implications for Research, Policy and Practice -- 9. Sharif -- 10. Conclusion.This book presents a study of street children’s involvement as workers in Bangladeshi organised crime groups based on a three-year ethnographic study in Dhaka. The book argues that ‘mastaans’ are Bangladeshi mafia groups that operate in a market for crime, violence and social protection. It considers the crimes mastaans commit, the ways they divide labour, and how and why street children become involved in these groups. The book explores how street children are hired by ‘mastaans’, to carry weapons, sell drugs, collect extortion money, commit political violence and conduct contract killings. The book argues that these young people are neither victims nor offenders; they are instead ‘illicit child labourers’, doing what they can to survive on the streets. This book adds to the emerging fields of the sociology of crime and deviance in South Asia and ‘Southern criminology’.Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in AsiaJuvenile delinquentsCriminologyLaw—AsiaVictimologyOrganized crimeViolenceCrimeCorrectionsPunishmentYouth Offending and Juvenile Justicehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1B5000Asian Criminologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1BC000Victimologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1B1040Organized Crimehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1B8000Violence and Crimehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1BG010Prison and Punishmenthttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1B9000Juvenile delinquents.Criminology.Law—Asia.Victimology.Organized crime.Violence.Crime.Corrections.Punishment.Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice.Asian Criminology.Victimology.Organized Crime.Violence and Crime.Prison and Punishment.362.7086942364.1060954922Atkinson-Sheppard Sallyauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut787483BOOK9910349372103321The Gangs of Bangladesh2499341UNINA