Exploring Urban Youth Culture Outside of the Gang Paradigm
Critical Questions of Youth, Gender and Race On-Road
Edited by Jade Levell, Tara Young and Rod Earle
Published
Mar 18, 2025Page count
208 pagesISBN
978-1529225587Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Sep 21, 2023Page count
208 pagesISBN
978-1529225570Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Sep 21, 2023Page count
208 pagesISBN
978-1529225594Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Sep 21, 2023Page count
208 pagesISBN
978-1529225594Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Exploring Urban Youth Culture Outside of the Gang Paradigm
‘On-road’ is a complex term used by young people to describe street-based subculture and a general way of being. Featuring the voices of young people, this collection explores how race, class and gender dynamics shape this aspect of youth culture.
With young people on-road often becoming criminalised due to interlocking structural inequalities, this book looks beyond concerns about gangs and presents empirical research from scholars and activists who work with and study the social lives of young people. It addresses the concerns of practitioners, policy makers and scholars by analysing aspects and misinterpretations of the shifting realities of young people’s urban life.
“A welcome departure from the well-trodden path – there are no stereotypes of Black ‘gang members’ here. Instead, we meet friends, lovers, creatives and future youth workers navigating harsh socioeconomic inequality and racist criminalisation on-road.” Jonathan Ilan, University College Dublin
Jade Levell is Senior Lecturer of Criminology and Gender Violence at the University of Bristol.
Tara Young is Senior Lecturer of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Kent.
Rod Earle is Senior Lecturer of Youth Justice at The Open University.
Foreword by Claudia Bernard
1. Introduction: Youth and On-Road – Making Gender and Race Matter - Jade Levell, Tara Young and Rod Earle
2. Black, British Young Women On-Road: Intersections of Gender, Race and Youth in British Interwar Youth Penal Reform - Esmorie Miller
3. Tainted Love: Intimate Relationships and Gendered Violence On-Road - Yusef Bakkali and Ezimma Chigbo
4. (The) Trouble with Friends: Narrative Stories of Friendship and Violence On-Road - Tara Young
5. The Sexual Politics of Masculinity and Vulnerability On-Road: Gender, Race and Male Victimisation - Jade Levell
6. The Road, in Court: How UK Drill Music Became a Criminal Offence - Lambros Fatsis
7. On-Road Inside: Music as a Site of Carceral Convergence - Chris Waller
8. Jeta e Rrugës: Translocal On-Road Hustle, Within and from Albania - Jade Levell and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers
9. ‘He’s shown me the road’: Role Model and Roadman - Peter Harris
10. Diary of an On-Road Criminologist: An Auto-Ethnographic Reflection - Martin Glynn
11. Conclusions, Compromises and Continuing Conversations - Jade Levell, Tara Young and Rod Earle
