Thug Criminology: A Call to Action

Introduction
Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony Gunter

Part I: They Don’t Give a F**k about Us! Defanging and Decolonizing the Criminological Enterprise

1. Problematizing Traditional Criminological Perspectives on Thugs and Gangs
Olga Marques

2. The White Male Criminological Gaze as Pornography: The Quasi-Sexual Academic Obsession with Black “Gang Bangers”
Anthony Gunter

3. Writing Themselves Out of Research: “Whitemaleness” and the Study of “Gang” Active Young Women
Clare Choak
4. Somethin’ Doesn’t Seem Right: A Commentary on the “Scientific Method” and “Gang”Research
Adam Ellis and Anthony Gunter

Part II: “Getting Over” and Inside the Ivory Tower

5. I Am (Not) What You Say I Am: The Colonizers’ “Gang”
Gregory (Chris) Brown

6. A Black Scholar’s Intellectual Journey and Subsequent Perspective on the White Colonial “Gang” Project
Ian Joseph

7. Good Trouble: Creating Spaces for Criminalized Populations in the Ivory Tower
Lily Gonzalez, Javier Rodriguez, and Robert Weide

Part III: Word on the Street

8. Shook Ones: An Insider’s Perspective on Trauma, PTSD, and the Reenactment of Street-Related Violence
Adam Elis, Stephanie Belanger, and Luca Berardi

9. (De)Criminalizing the “Code of Silence" – Reflections of a Former “Gangbanger” Turned Academic
Anthony Hutchinson and Jared Millican

10. The Raid: State Violence and Traumatic Responses in the Lives of Black Women
Melissa McLetchie

11a. Letter from the Streetz: Growing Up in the Gutter
Chad Briand aka Turk

11b. Letter from the Streetz: Don’t Interrupt Me
TG

11c. Letter from the Penetentiary: The Change in Me
Alejandro Vivar

11d. Letter from the Streetz: Dear Hip Hop
Marcus Singleton aka Iomos Marad

Part IV: Decolonizing the Gang Industry

12. Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority Communities
Anthony Gunter

13. A Violent Cure? Problematizing the “Cure Violence” Initiative
Malte Riemann

14. When the System Harms: An Insider’s Perspective on the Negative Socio-psychological Impact of So-Called “Gang Intervention”
Tammy Tinney

15. Fight Poverty, Fight Crime: A Justice Focused Approach for Toronto/Canada
Yafet Tewelde and Julet Allen

16. We Make the Path by Walking It: Repairing, Restoring, and Constructing Pathways
Rick Kelly

Epilogue
Adam Ellis

Contributor Biographies