The gangs of Bangladesh : mastaans, street gangs and 'illicit child labourers' in Dhaka / Sally Atkinson-Sheppard.

Titolo

The gangs of Bangladesh : mastaans, street gangs and 'illicit child labourers' in Dhaka / Sally Atkinson-Sheppard.

Descrizione

Title from PDF of title page (viewed, Nov. 5, 2019)
This book presents a study of street children’s involvement as workers in Bangladeshi organised crime groups based on a three-year ethnographic study in Dhaka. The book argues that ‘mastaans’ are Bangladeshi mafia groups that operate in a market for crime, violence and social protection. It considers the crimes mastaans commit, the ways they divide labour, and how and why street children become involved in these groups. The book explores how street children are hired by ‘mastaans’, to carry weapons, sell drugs, collect extortion money, commit political violence and conduct contract killings. The book argues that these young people are neither victims nor offenders; they are instead ‘illicit child labourers’, doing what they can to survive on the streets. This book adds to the emerging fields of the sociology of crime and deviance in South Asia and ‘Southern criminology’.

Editore

Palgrave Macmillan,

Data

Autore di contributo subordinato

SpringerLink (Online service)

Relazione

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-18426-1

Formato

1 online resource (xii, 203 p.) : ill.

Lingua

eng

Tipo

a

Diritti di accesso

Publisher's Web site. Access restricted to the University of Catania community.

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-18426-1 doi

ISBN

9783030184254 (hbk.)
9783030184261 (PDF ebook)
9783030184254 (hbk.)

Series

Palgrave advances in criminology and criminal justice in Asia
Palgrave advances in criminology and criminal justice in Asia.

Files

2019_Book_TheGangsOfBangladesh.pdf

Citation

Atkinson-Sheppard, Sally., “The gangs of Bangladesh : mastaans, street gangs and 'illicit child labourers' in Dhaka / Sally Atkinson-Sheppard.,” Lex e-books - Collana, ultimo accesso il 22 novembre 2024, https://epub.unict.it/omeka/items/show/413.