1.How is a “crime wave” a state of mind? In Cohen’s Folk Devil and Moral Panics, how does the new “social type” emerge? (the inventory, the reaction, and impact)
How do racial codes and class assumptions influence the image of gangs?
2.How does the moral panic over gangs lead to the “new Jim Crow”? What do they mean by “new frontier zones”?
What are the results from this “distraction” for the general public?
3.What are the social consequences of “stop and frisk”? How is it applied?
4.Who are the AGI? How do they function? Describe the ICE operation in 2006 and 2007. Explain the issues with CRASH and NYC’s SCU.
5. Describe Chicago Police’s anti-gang tactics and the “over policing” of New York City’s Schools. How did the Pelican Bay hunger strike begin? What were their demands? How does the mainstream corporate entertainment industry appropriate “gangsta culture”?
6. How does the mainstream corporate entertainment industry appropriate “gangsta culture”?
1. After reading Chapter 5 and watching the video explain the ”mano dura” strategies in El Salvador. Discuss with your classmates the following topics:
– How are “social problems” exported?
-Address how is gang talk a “discourse of power”? Who are the social actors?
-How are “tropes reinforced” How does demonizing gang talk differ around the world? (Spain)
2. How are gangs a desire and community? Describe how gangs are “seductive” to youths. How are gang “performative” in the carnival of crime?
