Geoff Hunt
Biographic Data
| ID | 74992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoff Hunt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoff |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunt |
| SIGNATURE | HUNT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7067-3310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 70 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 306 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Uncertain intimacies: Intoxication, consent, and moral judgment among young adults
How do young adults negotiate consent and responsibility in sexual encounters involving intoxication? Drawing on 31 qualitative interviews with young adults in the Greater Stockholm area, this article conceptualizes such encounters as situations in which taken-for-granted moral orientation may become destabilized. Participants described uncertainty about intentions, consent, responsibility, and the meaning of events, especially where memory loss,…
Climate Science on the Farm: Connecting Community to Research Through Movement and Creative Action
Effectively addressing the climate crisis at scale in a timely manner will require novel engagement strategies that move beyond laboratory findings and policy dictates. In this practice insight, we present the Moving Farm Tour, a movement-based, farm- and community-centered exploration of the intersection of art and culture with agriculture and climate change. Through this model, we highlight the use of dance and creative engagement as tangible m…
Deconstructing the Myth of the ‘Naturally Sober’ Woman: Historical and Cultural Constructions of Women and Intoxication
This paper deconstructs the myth of the ‘naturally sober’ woman by tracing its historical and cultural construction in the US across four time periods: colonial, nineteenth century temperance, Prohibition, and post-Prohibition eras. Using a feminist historiographical lens, we explore how gendered narratives obscured women’s complex roles as alcohol consumers, producers, and distributors. Distinctions of class and space were crucial: working-class…
Intoxication, Sexual Consent and Masculine Performances
This paper examines how young heterosexual men negotiated notions of masculinity, manhood and sexual consent in intoxicated sexual encounters. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews with young men in Northern California, US, and drawing on recent developments within theories of masculinity and sexual script theory, the findings discussed here show that many of the men interviewed distanced themselves from sexually predatory behaviors, redefinin…
Cumulative Social Disadvantage and Medicinal Cannabis Use Among Younger Adults in Rural Communities: A Mixed Methods Approach
This mixed-methods study investigated the role of medicinal cannabis use among younger adults who live in rural communities and experience high levels of cumulative social disadvantage (CSD). Results are based on cross-sectional surveys and online interviews with 153 younger adults (18-35-years old) in rural California. We assessed participants' levels of CSD (high, medium, and low) and examined associations with perceived general physical and me…
An Exploration of Rural Housing Insecurity as a Public Health Problem in California’s Rural Northern Counties
“Most Officers are More or Less Colorblind”: Police Officers' Reflections on the Role of Race and Ethnicity in Policing
Several studies worldwide have demonstrated that ethnic minorities are more likely to be stopped, questioned and searched by the police. In this paper, we explore how police officers themselves discuss and make sense of ethnic disparities in police stops. Based on interviews with 25 police officers in two police precincts in Denmark the paper illustrates how officers actively reflect on the (un)importance of ethnicity for policing. Findings point…
Coping With Intoxicated Masculinity: Queer Young Adults’ Experiences and Narratives of Sexual Victimization and Gender in Nightlife
While research on intoxication and violence has been prolific, including research on sexual violence, little of the existing work has examined sexual victimization among sexual and gender minorities (SGM), especially in drinking settings where violence and aggression may be commonplace. Using data from interviews with 200 SGM young adults in the San Francisco Bay Area, we examine SGM young adults' narratives of sexual victimization within drinkin…
Rethinking intoxicated sexual encounters
Social research on alcohol and sexual encounters has tended to be siloed into several different research endeavors, each addressing separate aspects of wanted and unwanted sexual encounters. While sociologists have focused on the patterns of social interaction, status competition, and emotional hierarchies of sexual encounters, they have left the role of alcohol intoxication largely unexamined. Conversely, the two dominant approaches to sexual en…
Ambiguous Encounters: Young Women’s Expectations and Experiences with Intoxicated Sexual Relations in Danish Nightlife
This article is based on 28 in-depth interviews with young women (18–25) about their experiences with intoxicated sexual encounters in Danish nightlife. Little research has examined the role intoxication plays in the processes of consensual and non-consensual sex. Using theories of intoxication and sexual scripts, this article focuses on how alcohol is used and perceived by these young women as a potential way of modifying behaviours and norms in…
Filming Is Our Only Weapon Against the Police’: Ethnic Minorities and Police Encounters in the New Visibility Era
Based on Goldsmith’s (2010, ‘Policing’s New Visibility’, British Journal of Criminology, 50: 914–34) assertion that police work has acquired a ‘new visibility’ with the ubiquity of cell phone cameras, recent studies have explored how ‘video activists’ often film the police as means of protecting marginalised ethno-racial communities. However, limited research exists on how non-activist ethno-racial minority young people use cell phone cameras in …
Blurring the Line”: Intoxication, Gender, Consent, and Sexual Encounters Among Young Adults
Social concern about sexual practices and sexual consent among young adults has increased significantly in recent years, and intoxication has often played a key role in such debates. While many studies have long suggested that alcohol plays a role in facilitating (casual) sexual encounters, intoxication has largely either been conceptualized as a risk factor, or researchers have focused on the pharmacological effects of alcohol on behaviors assoc…
‘Some Are Good, Some Are Bad’: Perceptions of the Police from Black and Latina Women Living in the San Francisco Bay Area
In recent years, high profile cases involving the deadly use of force on men and boys of color have raised concerns about police interactions with people of color. In general, these highly publicized cases have consolidated the view that men of color are the primary targets. While this focus is important, it has led, nevertheless, to an overshadowing of women of color’s experiences with police violence and their perceptions of the police. In orde…
Tobacco Harm Reduction as a Path to Restore Trust in Tobacco Control
The controversy of tobacco harm reduction in the United States persists despite evidence that an important audience of tobacco prevention and control, i.e., the people who use or are likely to use nicotine and tobacco products, are engaging in practices that may be considered harm reduction. Despite this, a significant proportion of the US tobacco control and prevention field continues to be guided by a precept that there is "no safe tobacco," th…
Community policing in Danish “ghetto” areas: Trust and distrust between the police and ethnic minority youth
Recent years have seen trends within police to use different forms of “community policing” strategies that aim to foster closer relationships and trust with citizens, as well as an orientation toward “procedural justice” in law enforcement practices. Based on 25 interviews with police officers in two different police precincts in Denmark, this article explores the policing of ethnic minority youth in so-called “ghetto” areas from the perspectives…
Young women’s narratives on sex in the context of heavy alcohol use: Friendships, gender norms and the sociality of consent
Gendered perspectives on young adults, alcohol consumption and intoxication
Legitimizing and negotiating abstinence: Young adults’ narratives about practicing situational and long term abstinence in Denmark
Drinking comfortably? Gender and affect among Danish pre-partiers
While our analysis supports the observation of existing qualitative studies, that pre-partying is not merely motivated by the possibility of becoming intoxicated in a cheap and un-surveilled way before going out, we especially argue that pre-partying is fueled by a desire for 'comfortability', which seems almost impossible to disassemble from the gendering that pre-partying also entails. Our analysis therefore contributes to the ongoing academic …
Suspected or protected? Perceptions of procedural justice in ethnic minority youth's descriptions of police relations
Research has highlighted the harmful effects of targeted police practices and the subsequent low trust in the police among ethnic minorities. However in spite of this research, there still exists a relative lack of knowledge on the day-to-day relations between ethnic minority youth and the police and on the perceptions that ethnic minorities have of procedural justice. Furthermore, comparative and cross-nation research is needed. This study, usin…
Is Smoking Queer? Implications of California Tobacco Denormalization Strategies for Queer Current and Former Smokers
This article is concerned with normative conceptions of health structuring tobacco control strategies designed to "denormalize" tobacco use. Analysis of 201 interviews with non-heterosexual and/or non-cisgender adults in California revealed that participants implicated tobacco use in exacerbating health inequities and perpetuating harmful narratives of queer suffering, but also regarded smoking as a critical tool for self-care and symbol of resis…
Ring and bring drug services: Delivery dealing and the social life of a drug phone
We show how a social constructivist approach to technology can provide a more detailed and nuanced account of the socio-technical ensemble and the meaning-making processes giving shape to retail level "delivery dealing
Youth perspectives on concurrent smoking and vaping: Implications for tobacco control
Most people who smoke cigarettes begin young. Consequently, public health efforts directed at youth are a priority. The increasing popularity of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) among youth in the United States has raised concerns in the public health community about the potential of ENDS to renormalize cigarette smoking and perpetuate nicotine addiction, creating dual users who both vape and smoke. Despite limited and inconclusive evi…
Congenial drinking’ and accomplishments of place-belongingness among young people in rural Denmark
While research on youthful drinking is extensive, the literature has been geographically skewed towards urban settings. As a potential corrective to this, our focus in this paper is on youthful drinking in rural Denmark. Based on 22 in-depth interviews with young drinkers, this paper explores the drinking practices of rural youth. More specifically, drawing on Antonsich’s [2010. “Searching for belonging–an analytical framework.” Geography Compass…
Minor harassments: Ethnic minority youth in the Nordic countries and their perceptions of the police
As different social groups are directly and indirectly confronted with diverse forms of police practices, different sectors of the population accumulate different experiences and respond differently to the police. This study focuses on the everyday experiences of the police among ethnic minority young people in the Nordic countries. The data for the article are based on semi-structured interviews with 121 young people in Sweden, Norway, Finland a…
Changes in Prison Culture: Prison Gangs and the Case of the 'Pepsi Generation
This article examines recent changes in prison life. Information collected from a series of in-depth interviews with a sample of California ex-prisoners suggests an important corrective both to the criminal justice literature and to those sociological accounts which have attempted to explain the culture of prison life. The interview data reveals that a serious deterioration in the quality of life has taken place inside California prisons, and tha…
Socio-cultural anthropology and alcohol and drug research
Drug Use and Meanings of Risk and Pleasure
The purpose of this paper is to explore meanings of risk and pleasure around drugs among adolescents and young adults, and provide data that represent the users’ perspectives. Using in-depth qualitative data from a sample of 300 young dance event attendees in the San Francisco Bay Area, we will analyze their perceptions of ecstasy and other illicit drugs, which are sometimes used at raves, clubs and other dance events. Using contemporary socio-cu…
The Path and Promise of Fatherhood for Gang Members
While an increase in research on criminal desistance has occurred in recent years, little research has been applied to the gang field. Using qualitative interview data, this article examines fatherhood as a potential turning point in the lives of 91 gang members in the San Francisco Bay Area. Fatherhood initiated important subjective and affective transformations that led to changes in outlook, priorities and future orientation. However, these su…
Cohesion and Division: Drinking in an English Village
To many the village pub is seen as the one remaining institution within village life which can operate as a unifying social centre. The pub is perceived as a place where people of diverse backgrounds can freely enter and socialise. In this article, based on research in an East Anglian village, the pub is also shown to maintain social barriers. By investigating the drinking practices of two socially contrasting groups, pubs are shown to establish …
Young mother (in the) hood: Gang girls' negotiation of new identities
This article examines the experiences of young women in street gangs who become mothers. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 65 young women in the San Francisco, CA, Bay Area, we examine their narratives about the transition to motherhood. In particular, we focus on the ways these young women negotiate femininities and attempt to reconcile their identities as young mothers and gang girls-both stigmatized identities. For many of the young women…
Suspected or protected? Perceptions of procedural justice in ethnic minority youth's descriptions of police relations
Research has highlighted the harmful effects of targeted police practices and the subsequent low trust in the police among ethnic minorities. However in spite of this research, there still exists a relative lack of knowledge on the day-to-day relations between ethnic minority youth and the police and on the perceptions that ethnic minorities have of procedural justice. Furthermore, comparative and cross-nation research is needed. This study, usin…
Food choice as a multidimensional experience. A qualitative study with young African American women
Your Life in Their Hands: Migrant Workers in the National Health Service
The National Health Service is heavily dependent on overseas workers at all levels. Some 33 per cent of all doctors and 20 per cent of student nurses now working in Britain were born overseas. The traditional justification for this situation is that it constitutes a form of British 'aid' to the third world, training health workers who then go back to their own countries. However a closer examination reveals that in reality these workers provide a…
Moving into Motherhood: Gang Girls and Controlled Risk
A growing body of research challenges the popular characterization that young mothers are bad mothers. This article focuses on a group of girls and young women who were pregnant or mothers and who were engaged in a risky lifestyle through their heavy involvement in gangs, partying, and drinking. The authors examine the impact of the process of motherhood at its different stages (from pregnancy to parenthood) on both the 'homegirls'' involvement a…
Darts, Drink and the Pub: The Culture of Female Drinking
Sociologists and anthropologists have paid little attention to women's role in the pub. This article, based on fieldwork reseach, sets out to describe the use of two pubs by two different groups of women in an English village. Through these examples, we seek to illustrate not only the social class differences between the two groups of women but also their differential use of the pub. For many working-class women, as opposed to their middle-class …
Food in the family. Bringing young people back in
Respectability And Autonomy: The Articulation and Meaning of Sexuality among the Girls in the Gang
This article explores two different discourses of sexuality among female gang members. Homegirls have long been associated with stereotypes about their sexuality-they are usually portrayed as either too sexual or not (hetero)sexual enough. Yet, in spite of these stereotypes, we know little about how female gang members themselves talk and think about sexuality. In this article, using data from the authors' ongoing study of street gangs in the San…
Conflicting Discourses in Qualitative Research: The Search for Divergent Data within Cases
The search for disconfirming evidence, or negative cases, is often considered a valuable strategy for assessing the credibility or validity of qualitative research claims. This article draws on a multimethod qualitative research project to illustrate how a search for disconfirming evidence evolved from a check on the validity of findings to a strategy for revealing the multiple conflicting discourses within respondents' narratives that transforme…
Asian American Identity and Drug Consumption: From Acculturation to Normalization
This article analyzes the relationship between substance use and ethnic identity in the narratives of 206 young Asian Americans in a dance club/rave scene. We examined the meaning of drug use and found three types of narratives invoked to explain their drug use. The first noted difficulties arising from their Asian American identities, the experience of culture clash, and stresses associated with acculturation and Americanization. The second view…
The Meaning and Gendered Culture of Getting High: Gang Girls and Drug Use Issues
This paper explores drug use in the lives of female gang members. Gang researchers have traditionally neglected the roles that females play in street gangs. More recent efforts have begun to examine the social life of young women and to uncover the extent to which the women develop a subculture within a male-dominated environment. In analyzing the culture of drug use in gang life, we uncover the extent to which women use illicit drugs in a highly…
Queer youth, intoxication and queer drinking spaces
Research on intoxicating substances and gender has developed considerably in the last 30 years, especially in the social sciences as feminist scholars highlighted the contradictory discourses about young women's intoxication. Nevertheless, there still remain significant gaps if we are to fully understand the role and meaning of intoxication for all young people and not merely for heterosexual, cisgender young people. As a way of exploring the pos…
The Middle Class Revisited: Eating and Drinking in an English Village
Etude de l'acte de boire et de manger dans la classe moyenne du Sud-Est de l'Angleterre. La reciprocite, lors des rencontres dans un pub ou chacun paie a tour de role la tournee, fonctionne egalement pour les invitations amicales caracterisees par le degre d'intimite (repas formel, fete formelle, fete informelle et repas informel
Minor harassments: Ethnic minority youth in the Nordic countries and their perceptions of the police
As different social groups are directly and indirectly confronted with diverse forms of police practices, different sectors of the population accumulate different experiences and respond differently to the police. This study focuses on the everyday experiences of the police among ethnic minority young people in the Nordic countries. The data for the article are based on semi-structured interviews with 121 young people in Sweden, Norway, Finland a…
Trust in Police Motivations During Involuntary Encounters: An Examination of Young Gang Members of Colour
Problems related to distrust of police, including aggressive and prejudicial police behavior, continue to raise concerns. Using a procedural justice model, the present study examines perceptions of trust or the lack thereof among a subpopulation of young disadvantaged minority youth that routinely come in contact with the police: drug-dealing gang members. In this article, we examine 253 qualitative in-depth interviews comprised primarily of Afri…
Conceptualizing ethnicity in alcohol and drug research: Epidemiology meets social theory
Since the 1990s, social scientists have rejected notions of ethnicity as something static and discrete, instead highlighting the context-dependent and fluid nature of multiple identities. In spite of these developments, researchers within the substance use fields continue to assess ethnic group categories in ways that suggest little critical reflection in terms of the validity of the measurements themselves, nor the social, bureaucratic, and poli…
Coping With Intoxicated Masculinity: Queer Young Adults’ Experiences and Narratives of Sexual Victimization and Gender in Nightlife
While research on intoxication and violence has been prolific, including research on sexual violence, little of the existing work has examined sexual victimization among sexual and gender minorities (SGM), especially in drinking settings where violence and aggression may be commonplace. Using data from interviews with 200 SGM young adults in the San Francisco Bay Area, we examine SGM young adults' narratives of sexual victimization within drinkin…
Blurring the Line”: Intoxication, Gender, Consent, and Sexual Encounters Among Young Adults
Social concern about sexual practices and sexual consent among young adults has increased significantly in recent years, and intoxication has often played a key role in such debates. While many studies have long suggested that alcohol plays a role in facilitating (casual) sexual encounters, intoxication has largely either been conceptualized as a risk factor, or researchers have focused on the pharmacological effects of alcohol on behaviors assoc…
Community policing in Danish “ghetto” areas: Trust and distrust between the police and ethnic minority youth
Recent years have seen trends within police to use different forms of “community policing” strategies that aim to foster closer relationships and trust with citizens, as well as an orientation toward “procedural justice” in law enforcement practices. Based on 25 interviews with police officers in two different police precincts in Denmark, this article explores the policing of ethnic minority youth in so-called “ghetto” areas from the perspectives…
Is Smoking Queer? Implications of California Tobacco Denormalization Strategies for Queer Current and Former Smokers
This article is concerned with normative conceptions of health structuring tobacco control strategies designed to "denormalize" tobacco use. Analysis of 201 interviews with non-heterosexual and/or non-cisgender adults in California revealed that participants implicated tobacco use in exacerbating health inequities and perpetuating harmful narratives of queer suffering, but also regarded smoking as a critical tool for self-care and symbol of resis…
Your Life in Their Hands: Migrant Workers in the National Health Service
The National Health Service is heavily dependent on overseas workers at all levels. Some 33 per cent of all doctors and 20 per cent of student nurses now working in Britain were born overseas. The traditional justification for this situation is that it constitutes a form of British 'aid' to the third world, training health workers who then go back to their own countries. However a closer examination reveals that in reality these workers provide a…
Did Annibale Pastore Influence Gramsci
Cohesion and Division: Drinking in an English Village
To many the village pub is seen as the one remaining institution within village life which can operate as a unifying social centre. The pub is perceived as a place where people of diverse backgrounds can freely enter and socialise. In this article, based on research in an East Anglian village, the pub is also shown to maintain social barriers. By investigating the drinking practices of two socially contrasting groups, pubs are shown to establish …
Darts, Drink and the Pub: The Culture of Female Drinking
Sociologists and anthropologists have paid little attention to women's role in the pub. This article, based on fieldwork reseach, sets out to describe the use of two pubs by two different groups of women in an English village. Through these examples, we seek to illustrate not only the social class differences between the two groups of women but also their differential use of the pub. For many working-class women, as opposed to their middle-class …
Patriacy and Pub Culture
A Counter-Hermeneutical Negative Re-Evaluation of Epicyclic Ramifications
The Middle Class Revisited: Eating and Drinking in an English Village
Etude de l'acte de boire et de manger dans la classe moyenne du Sud-Est de l'Angleterre. La reciprocite, lors des rencontres dans un pub ou chacun paie a tour de role la tournee, fonctionne egalement pour les invitations amicales caracterisees par le degre d'intimite (repas formel, fete formelle, fete informelle et repas informel
Changes in Prison Culture: Prison Gangs and the Case of the 'Pepsi Generation
This article examines recent changes in prison life. Information collected from a series of in-depth interviews with a sample of California ex-prisoners suggests an important corrective both to the criminal justice literature and to those sociological accounts which have attempted to explain the culture of prison life. The interview data reveals that a serious deterioration in the quality of life has taken place inside California prisons, and tha…
Only the Echoes: The Life of Howard Bass Cushing
Journal Article Only the Echoes: The Life of Howard Bass Cushing Get access Only the Echoes: The Life of Howard Bass Cushing. By Randall Kenneth A.. (Las Cruces: Yucca Tree Press, 1995. 109 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00, cloth; $12.95, paper.) Geoffrey R. Hunt Geoffrey R. Hunt Denver, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, I…
Situations of Violence in the Lives of Girl Gang Members
Women and violence has become a topic of increasing concern. Women's involvement in perpetrating violence, especially girl gang members, also has raised national concern. The participation of young women in gangs and gang violence has caused public consternation as they are perceived to be violating traditional notions of femininity. In spite of this increased concern and burgeoning literature, significant gaps still exist in our understanding of…
Situations of Violence in the Lives of Girl Gang Members
Socio-cultural anthropology and alcohol and drug research
The Meaning and Gendered Culture of Getting High: Gang Girls and Drug Use Issues
This paper explores drug use in the lives of female gang members. Gang researchers have traditionally neglected the roles that females play in street gangs. More recent efforts have begun to examine the social life of young women and to uncover the extent to which the women develop a subculture within a male-dominated environment. In analyzing the culture of drug use in gang life, we uncover the extent to which women use illicit drugs in a highly…
Lyle, John M(acIntosh)
Dancing and Drugs: A Cross-National Perspective
The youth dance club scene has emerged center stage as a global phenomenon. Despite this increasing globalization, our knowledge of the phenomenon is relatively restricted to single cultures and locales. Unfortunately, researchers may miss the extent to which similar processes are developing in a number of different locales. Instead of examining drug consumption and drug-using practices within only one culture, we need to compare two or more cont…
Respectability And Autonomy: The Articulation and Meaning of Sexuality among the Girls in the Gang
This article explores two different discourses of sexuality among female gang members. Homegirls have long been associated with stereotypes about their sexuality-they are usually portrayed as either too sexual or not (hetero)sexual enough. Yet, in spite of these stereotypes, we know little about how female gang members themselves talk and think about sexuality. In this article, using data from the authors' ongoing study of street gangs in the San…
Representations of family: A review of the alcohol and drug literature
Moving into Motherhood: Gang Girls and Controlled Risk
A growing body of research challenges the popular characterization that young mothers are bad mothers. This article focuses on a group of girls and young women who were pregnant or mothers and who were engaged in a risky lifestyle through their heavy involvement in gangs, partying, and drinking. The authors examine the impact of the process of motherhood at its different stages (from pregnancy to parenthood) on both the 'homegirls'' involvement a…
Youth Gangs and Drugs: The Case of Marijuana
While the association between drug sales and violence has been a central focus of gang research since the 1980s, the issue of drug use within gangs has been given much less attention. This is especially true in the case of marijuana. This lack of interest is surprising given the extent to which gang members use marijuana. Other than alcohol, marijuana is the most widely used substance in gang life. In examining the culture and role of marijuana i…
Drug Use and Meanings of Risk and Pleasure
The purpose of this paper is to explore meanings of risk and pleasure around drugs among adolescents and young adults, and provide data that represent the users’ perspectives. Using in-depth qualitative data from a sample of 300 young dance event attendees in the San Francisco Bay Area, we will analyze their perceptions of ecstasy and other illicit drugs, which are sometimes used at raves, clubs and other dance events. Using contemporary socio-cu…
Negotiating Global Priorities for Technologies
Asian American Identity and Drug Consumption: From Acculturation to Normalization
This article analyzes the relationship between substance use and ethnic identity in the narratives of 206 young Asian Americans in a dance club/rave scene. We examined the meaning of drug use and found three types of narratives invoked to explain their drug use. The first noted difficulties arising from their Asian American identities, the experience of culture clash, and stresses associated with acculturation and Americanization. The second view…
The Too-Good Wife: Alcohol, Codependency, and the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan by Amy Borovoy
Epidemiology meets cultural studies: Studying and understanding youth cultures, clubs and drugs
The public perceptions of clubs and drugs reveal the existence of two opposing discourses. One, an official discourse, characterizes dance events and taking drugs as spaces of excess risk, which need to be controlled and regulated. The other, as exemplified in accounts of the participants themselves, emphasizes the pleasures and importance of these activities. The dichotomous nature of the discourses is not that surprising as many researchers hav…
The Path and Promise of Fatherhood for Gang Members
While an increase in research on criminal desistance has occurred in recent years, little research has been applied to the gang field. Using qualitative interview data, this article examines fatherhood as a potential turning point in the lives of 91 gang members in the San Francisco Bay Area. Fatherhood initiated important subjective and affective transformations that led to changes in outlook, priorities and future orientation. However, these su…
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