A Glasgow Gang Observed
In the 1960's a 26-year-old schoolmaster at a Scottish reformatory (List D) School, under the alias of James Patrick, went undercover with the help of one of his pupils to study the often violent behaviour of the teenagers in a gang in Glasgow. He managed to conceal his identity and motives and during the course of a four-month assignation in 1966 he observed closely the gang members and concluded that the boys were 'afraid of fighting other gangs but more afraid of not fighting them.' Ultimately it was 'the struggle between identification with the boys and abhorrence of their violence that forced me to quit.'This book became the first publis…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-906000-39-4
- EAN: 9781906000394
- Produktnummer: 14844317
- Verlag: Neil Wilson Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'533 KB
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James Patrick is the 1966 alias of a 26-year-old schoolteacher in a List D Scottish Reformatory School. His current whereabouts are known only to the publisher as he wishes to retain his anonymity.
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