It’s Dangerous’
The Online World of Drug Dealers, Rappers and the Street Code
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8401013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marta-Marika Urbanik, Marta‐marika Urbanik (0000-0002-5669-7789, University of Alberta), Kevin D Haggerty (0000-0003-3864-6811, University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1343-1360 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azx083 |
| OpenAlex | W2783359541 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 41 |
As the digital divide has narrowed, the internet and social media have become more accessible to disadvantaged populations, including drug dealers, gang members and street hustlers. These individuals increasingly publicize their activities and associations via social media networks. Little is known, however, about the dangers criminal actors face in using social media, and how they manage those risks. Based on interview data and ethnographic observation of criminally-involved men in Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood, we argue that the men both reproduce and reinforce many of the dangers of life on the urban streets, while fostering new strategies for managing those risks through an ongoing process of online impression management. In the process, the code of the street goes virtual; dis-embedded from its originating physical location, it circulates on new media platforms, and occasionally becomes re-embedded onto those same streets, but with different inflexions and implications.
Advertising · Business · Criminology · Disadvantaged · Ethnography · Internet privacy · Media studies · Neighbourhood (mathematics) · Political science · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions
Women in Gang Research
Re-Examining the Literature on Social Media and Gangs
What Is Gang Culture?
Belief in the Code of the Street and Individual Involvement in Offending
No two gangs are alike
Social Media and the Variable Impact of Violence Reduction Interventions
Drug dealers gone digital
GangTok
Finnish and Swedish ‘gangsta rap’ as a window on the dismantlement of the Nordic welfare state
Gangs and social media
The soundtrack of criminal careers
Gang Research in the Twenty-First Century
Keeping it real
Analysing the importance of drill artists’ offline environment in the creation of violent online identities
The limits of digital liberation
Sellers’ risk perceptions in public and private social media drug markets
Synthetic Opioid Trafficking Networks
Putting Everything up There”
Does Drill Rap Cause Violence, and, Even if it Does, Should it Be Censored
There’s A Certain Group of Cops that have their Own Vendetta’
Digital Street Culture Decoded
The Hybridization of Street Offending in the Netherlands
Violence, Conflicts and Weapons in the World of Financial–Economic Cybercrime
Code of the Tweet
Cybercrimes on the Streets of the Netherlands? An Exploration of the Intersection of Cybercrimes and Street Crimes
Six Lines
Making Sense of Murder
The Corner, the Crew, and the Digital Street
GangstaLife
Drawing Boundaries or Drawing Weapons? Neighborhood Master Status as Suppressor of Gang Violence
How Social Media Use Mitigates Urban Violence
Code of the street
Exposed
Down, Out, and Under Arrest
Streetwise
Internet banging
No sense of peace
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Unwanted
Policing and Social Media
Policing and Social Media
Youth Gangs and Definitional Issues
The Ghetto Fabulous Aesthetic in Contemporary Black Culture
Policing Social Media
The organisation of London's street gangs
Gang talk and gang talkers
Crime, media and the will-to-representation
Gang violence on the digital street
The mass production of celebrity
Street wise
Urban Desolation and Symbolic Denigration in the Hyperghetto
Framing Regent Park
Before there was danger but there was rules. And safety in those rules’
Narratives and Counternarratives
Navigating Dangerous Streets
Street habitus
I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately
Criminal and Routine Activities in Online Settings
Methodological Pluralism and the Possibilities and Limits of Interviewing
Challenging the Rhetoric of Stigmatization
The Digital Street
Popular Culture as Oppositional Culture
Gangstas, Thugs, and Hustlas
Gangs, Sectarianism and Social Capital
Edgework
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |