My body imprisoned, my soul relieved: Youth, gangs and prison in Cape Verde
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Data de Publicação: | 2018 |
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Idioma: | eng |
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Resumo: | Urban street gangs flourish in the urban centres of the Cape Verdean archipelago. Most of their members belong to the male, young and economically disadvantaged strata of society. While in public discourse youth gangs are often peremptorily blamed for most of the violence and criminality that take place in the country, the internal dynamics of gang life often go unnoticed. Based on fieldwork in the cities of Praia and Mindelo, the article discusses the mechanisms that make Cape Verdean adolescents and youths join urban gangs and stick to them, despite the state’s politics of securitization and repression. Within this context, the experience of imprisonment is related to gang members’ pre-prison biographies and the conceptualization of prison itself, reinforced during individual ‘careers’ of marginality. |
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My body imprisoned, my soul relieved: Youth, gangs and prison in Cape VerdeCape VerdeGangsPrisonViolenceYouthUrban street gangs flourish in the urban centres of the Cape Verdean archipelago. Most of their members belong to the male, young and economically disadvantaged strata of society. While in public discourse youth gangs are often peremptorily blamed for most of the violence and criminality that take place in the country, the internal dynamics of gang life often go unnoticed. Based on fieldwork in the cities of Praia and Mindelo, the article discusses the mechanisms that make Cape Verdean adolescents and youths join urban gangs and stick to them, despite the state’s politics of securitization and repression. Within this context, the experience of imprisonment is related to gang members’ pre-prison biographies and the conceptualization of prison itself, reinforced during individual ‘careers’ of marginality.SAGE Publications2023-05-17T14:49:26Z2018-01-01T00:00:00Z20182023-05-17T15:47:12Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10071/28614eng1367-549410.1177/1367549415603380Zoettl, P. A.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-09T17:42:56Zoai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/28614Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T22:20:09.231655Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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My body imprisoned, my soul relieved: Youth, gangs and prison in Cape Verde |
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My body imprisoned, my soul relieved: Youth, gangs and prison in Cape Verde |
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My body imprisoned, my soul relieved: Youth, gangs and prison in Cape Verde Zoettl, P. A. Cape Verde Gangs Prison Violence Youth |
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My body imprisoned, my soul relieved: Youth, gangs and prison in Cape Verde |
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My body imprisoned, my soul relieved: Youth, gangs and prison in Cape Verde |
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My body imprisoned, my soul relieved: Youth, gangs and prison in Cape Verde |
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My body imprisoned, my soul relieved: Youth, gangs and prison in Cape Verde |
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My body imprisoned, my soul relieved: Youth, gangs and prison in Cape Verde |
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Zoettl, P. A. |
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Zoettl, P. A. |
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Zoettl, P. A. |
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Cape Verde Gangs Prison Violence Youth |
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Cape Verde Gangs Prison Violence Youth |
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Urban street gangs flourish in the urban centres of the Cape Verdean archipelago. Most of their members belong to the male, young and economically disadvantaged strata of society. While in public discourse youth gangs are often peremptorily blamed for most of the violence and criminality that take place in the country, the internal dynamics of gang life often go unnoticed. Based on fieldwork in the cities of Praia and Mindelo, the article discusses the mechanisms that make Cape Verdean adolescents and youths join urban gangs and stick to them, despite the state’s politics of securitization and repression. Within this context, the experience of imprisonment is related to gang members’ pre-prison biographies and the conceptualization of prison itself, reinforced during individual ‘careers’ of marginality. |
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