The material presented by Jacobs and Wright makes law-abiding, middle-class persons realize there is an entirely different world where disgruntled criminals take revenge in ways that only Quentin Tarantino could imagine. There are few ethnographic works that can match the fascinating stories of retaliatory violence contained within "Street Justice."
Author(s): Bruce A. Jacobs, Richard Wright
Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 169
Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
ONE Background and Methods......Page 15
Our Study......Page 20
Research Site......Page 22
Sample and Recruitment......Page 23
The Interviews......Page 28
Validity: External and Internal......Page 31
An Editorial Note......Page 36
TWO The Retaliatory Ethic......Page 39
Defiance and Disrespect......Page 40
Incompetent Policing......Page 43
Ineffectual Law......Page 44
Disrespect and Deterrence......Page 46
The Pedagogy of Violent Retaliation......Page 48
Counter-retaliation......Page 50
The Mechanics of Retaliation......Page 55
THREE A Typology of Criminal Retaliation......Page 59
Reflexive Retaliation......Page 61
Calculated Retaliation......Page 63
Deferred Retaliation......Page 68
Sneaky Retaliation......Page 72
Imperfect Retaliation......Page 76
Non-retaliation......Page 79
The Retaliatory Calculus in Action......Page 82
FOUR Gender and Retaliation......Page 89
Male-on-Male Retaliation......Page 90
Male-on-Female Retaliation......Page 96
Female-on-Female Retaliation......Page 100
Female-on-Male Retaliation......Page 105
Gender and Retaliation in Perspective......Page 107
FIVE Imperfect Retaliation......Page 115
Wholly Imperfect Retaliation......Page 116
Relationally Imperfect Retaliation......Page 122
Marginally Imperfect Retaliation......Page 124
Imperfect Retaliation and the Search for Justice......Page 131
SIX Retaliation in Perspective......Page 137
The Formalization of Informal Justice......Page 141
Bringing Formal Justice to the Streets......Page 143
Conclusion......Page 148
Works Cited......Page 151
Index......Page 163
