The Gangs of Bangladesh : Mastaans, Street Gangs and ‘Illicit Child Labourers’ in Dhaka / / by Sally Atkinson-Sheppard

• Autore: Atkinson-Sheppard Sally
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2019.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 362.7086942; 364.1060954922
• Soggetto topico: Juvenile delinquents; Criminology; Law—Asia; Victimology; Organized crime; Violence; Crime; Corrections; Punishment; Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice; Asian Criminology; Organized Crime; Violence and Crime; Prison and Punishment
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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’.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Gangs of Bangladesh
• ISBN: 3-030-18426-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910349372103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia