Urban legends: gang identity in the post-industrial city

Drawing on four years of varied ethnographic fieldwork in Langview, a deindustrialised working-class community in Glasgow, this book tells a unique and powerful story of young people, gang identity, and social change, challenging perceptions of gangs as a novel, universal, or pathological phenomenon

Drawing on four years of varied ethnographic fieldwork in Langview, a deindustrialised working-class community in Glasgow, this book tells a unique and powerful story of young people, gang identity, and social change, challenging perceptions of gangs as a novel, universal, or pathological phenomenon.