2018.06.27: Thinking Allowed: Gangs and Spirituality, BBC

2018.06.27: Thinking Allowed: Gangs and Spirituality, BBC [1]

• Begins with a clip from West Side Story and plays other clips through the episode as a way of including a dramatic misconception of street gangs.
• Three academic criminologists Discussing street gangs and try to challenge some of the illusions (which are often hysterically generated) that produce the popular concept of a gang.
• Talk about the critical issue with criminality being persistence in crime beyond a certain age - the teenage years - when breaking the rules is almost a normative behavior. It’s the career criminal which is of interest.
• Available to listeners here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b7hbc0