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This chapter explores our respondents’ descent into crime and serious violence and the impact of formal and informal social controls on their criminal activities. The chapter further highlights the associated pains of labelling and imprisonment, which lay the foundation for an even deeper embeddedness in gangs and criminal offending.
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Gordon was Leo’s childhood friend and had recently relocated to Grasstown. Here, Gordon and Leo took up their friendship again.
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Note, while this was the last stand off, other minor skirmishes continued, and some still do to this day owing to personal vendettas that remain unresolved from this era. In addition, another large scale battle had been arranged at which Yellow Team, aligned with Leo and his friends from The Street, went looking for Red Team armed with knives, swords, a crossbow, and shovels (somewhat jokingly, they said, in case bodies had to be buried following the brawl). Red Team never showed up.
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McLean, R., Densley, J.A. (2020). Things Get Serious. In: Scotland’s Gang Members. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47752-3_5
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