Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part 1. Youth, Social Control, and Surveillance
1. Youth Experiences of Surveillance: A Cross- National Analysis 15
MARTIN RUCK, ANITA HARRIS, MICHELLE FINE, AND NICK FREUDENBERG
2. From the Outside Looking In: Young People’s Perceptions of Risk and Danger
in an East London Borough 31
SIMON HALLSWORTH AND JANET RANSOM
Part 2. Street Youth, Homelessness, and Displacement
3. Living Free: Nomadic Traveling Among Homeless Street Youth 47
MARNI FINKELSTEIN, RICHARD CURTIS, AND BARRY SPUNT
4. Street Youth in New York City and São Paulo: Deconstructing the Striking
Differences, Global Similarities, and Local Specificities 62
BENEDITO RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS
5. Searching for Home: Russian Street Youth and the Criminal Community 77
SVETLANA STEPHENSON
Part 3. Gangs and Street Cultures in the Globalized City
6. Social Control and Street Gangs in Los Angeles 95
JAMES DIEGO VIGIL
7. Youth Subcultures, Resistance, and the Street Organization in Late Modern
New York 114
DAVID C. BROTHERTON