MEST 4 Xmas Task #2, ADDITIONAL READING

Humpfry, Jay - Published by Heward Ellen - Black Culture (2000)

"Black teens resort to violence because of the role models they have, this manily being in the music industry".

This quote will be neccessary for me when im doing my essay as it relects on my critical investigation. this quote is all about the lack of role models that young black teens have that could resort into street violence.

Luton, George - Published By Phil David - Representation on Race (1999)

"Young Teenagers resolve to crime because of the racial abuse that they might believe still exisits"
"Street crime invloves young and old teenagers that are involved in gangs"

These quotes are useful for me when doing my essay as it helps me to figure out why street crime is happening and the cause of them.
10 Black People And The Criminal law - Braham, Peter - Rattansi, Ali - Racism and antiracism (1992) - London, SAGE Publications LtD.

"Discussions of the criminalization of black people in Britian"1
"Conspiracy charges were also used against the islington 18, black youths who were also arrested because of street fighting"
"Only 35% of those arrested in Brixton, south london were granted bail"

Robert Ferguson, First published in (1998) By Arnold (Hoddle Headline Group)

"Wars, murders, racist attackts are part of the seemingly endless flow of media representation of black british teens"
"Black British teens who in which later associate in gangs are often reported in the media as a modern issue"

Gifford, Clive - Gang (2006), London - Evans Brothers Limited.

"street crime occurs when gangs spend much of their time, energy disrespecting rival gangs and other teenagers that do not look familiar with them"
"I'm a black British teen and joining a gang is dangerous. violent conflict between gangs is common, and gang members are at least 60 times more likely to be killed than the rest of the population"

Particularly the first quote gives me extra reasons as to why young teenagers become involved in street crime. And then the second quote is all about the likelyhood of what will happen when they do join gangs and streetcrime. these two quote will really be useful for me when doing my essay as i can refer back to these quotes.

Wignall, Paul - Prejudice & Difference (2000) - Reed Educational and Professional Publishing LtD.

"Racism is what happens when ways of labelling and stereotyping people. Thats when gangs form these street crimes"
"White people using their power to exclude black or Asian people from opportunities for good health care, education and employment"
"Black people make up only 5% of the United Kingdom's population. however, over 50% of the prison population is black and 40% of the black population is unemployed".

Striniatic, Dominic - First published (1995) by Routledge

"The gangster film has a number of features which can usefully be explored by younger teenagers".
"The gangster film is about law, street crime and young black teenagers".
"Its not possible to know why black people are serving longer senteces than whites, other than that a high proportion of black people are convicted of offences involving drugs, street crime".

Race, And Unemployment - Donnellan, Craig - Published by Independence (2003)

"Young black teens out of jobs so they resort to violence and street crime. Whilst in this path they will be selling drugs"
"Whilst unemployment rates increase, young black hopefulls believe that they have no choice other than to join a gang"
"Overall black workers earn less white wokers"

Phil, Cane - Published by Paul Motson - Racism & Culture (2000)

"Some street crime and violence occurs when gangs are racial to one another"
"An increase of violence due to dislikes of other gangs"

Edward, Price - Published by Ford Knewton - Gang Culture (2001)

"Gangs is a way of young teens to feel save so that they don't get targeted by others"