Adam Ellis is an assistant professor of criminology at the University of Waterloo and the founder of The Street Institute.Olga Marques is an associate professor of criminology and justice at Ontario Tech University.Anthony Gunter is a senior lecturer and programme lead for childhood and youth studies at The Open University.

• Introduction Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony GunterPart I: They Don’t Give a F**k about Us! Defanging and Decolonizing the Criminological Enterprise1. Problematizing Traditional Criminological Perspectives on Thugs and GangsOlga Marques 2. The White Male Criminological Gaze as Pornography: The Quasi-Sexual Academic Obsession with Black "Gang Bangers"Anthony Gunter 3. Writing Themselves Out of Research: "Whitemaleness" and the Study of "Gang" Active Young WomenClare Choak4. Somethin’ Doesn’t Seem Right: A Commentary on the "Scientific Method" and "Gang"ResearchAdam Ellis and Anthony GunterPart II: "Getting Over" and Inside the Ivory Tower5. I Am (Not) What You Say I Am: The Colonizers’ "Gang"Gregory (Chris) Brown6. A Black Scholar’s Intellectual Journey and Subsequent Perspective on the White Colonial "Gang" Project Ian Joseph7. Good Trouble: Creating Spaces for Criminalized Populations in the Ivory TowerLily Gonzalez, Javier Rodriguez, and Robert WeidePart III: Word on the Street8. Shook Ones: An Insider’s Perspective on Trauma, PTSD, and the Reenactment of Street-Related ViolenceAdam Elis, Stephanie Belanger, and Luca Berardi9. (De)Criminalizing the "Code of Silence" – Reflections of a Former "Gangbanger" Turned AcademicAnthony Hutchinson and Jared Millican 10. The Raid: State Violence and Traumatic Responses in the Lives of Black WomenMelissa McLetchie11a. Letter from the Streetz: Growing Up in the GutterChad Briand aka Turk 11b. Letter from the Streetz: Don’t Interrupt MeTG11c. Letter from the Penetentiary: The Change in MeAlejandro Vivar11d. Letter from the Streetz: Dear Hip Hop Marcus Singleton aka Iomos Marad Part IV: Decolonizing the Gang Industry12. Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority CommunitiesAnthony Gunter13. A Violent Cure? Problematizing the "Cure Violence" InitiativeMalte Riemann14. When the System Harms: An Insider’s Perspective on the Negative Socio-psychological Impact of So-Called "Gang Intervention"Tammy Tinney15. Fight Poverty, Fight Crime: A Justice Focused Approach for Toronto/CanadaYafet Tewelde and Julet Allen16. We Make the Path by Walking It: Repairing, Restoring, and Constructing PathwaysRick KellyEpilogueAdam EllisContributor Biographies

Adam Ellis is an assistant professor of criminology at the University of Waterloo and the founder of The Street Institute.Olga Marques is an associate professor of criminology and justice at Ontario Tech University.Anthony Gunter is a senior lecturer and programme lead for childhood and youth studies at The Open University.

• Introduction Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony GunterPart I: They Don’t Give a F**k about Us! Defanging and Decolonizing the Criminological Enterprise1. Problematizing Traditional Criminological Perspectives on Thugs and GangsOlga Marques 2. The White Male Criminological Gaze as Pornography: The Quasi-Sexual Academic Obsession with Black "Gang Bangers"Anthony Gunter 3. Writing Themselves Out of Research: "Whitemaleness" and the Study of "Gang" Active Young WomenClare Choak4. Somethin’ Doesn’t Seem Right: A Commentary on the "Scientific Method" and "Gang"ResearchAdam Ellis and Anthony GunterPart II: "Getting Over" and Inside the Ivory Tower5. I Am (Not) What You Say I Am: The Colonizers’ "Gang"Gregory (Chris) Brown6. A Black Scholar’s Intellectual Journey and Subsequent Perspective on the White Colonial "Gang" Project Ian Joseph7. Good Trouble: Creating Spaces for Criminalized Populations in the Ivory TowerLily Gonzalez, Javier Rodriguez, and Robert WeidePart III: Word on the Street8. Shook Ones: An Insider’s Perspective on Trauma, PTSD, and the Reenactment of Street-Related ViolenceAdam Elis, Stephanie Belanger, and Luca Berardi9. (De)Criminalizing the "Code of Silence" – Reflections of a Former "Gangbanger" Turned AcademicAnthony Hutchinson and Jared Millican 10. The Raid: State Violence and Traumatic Responses in the Lives of Black WomenMelissa McLetchie11a. Letter from the Streetz: Growing Up in the GutterChad Briand aka Turk 11b. Letter from the Streetz: Don’t Interrupt MeTG11c. Letter from the Penetentiary: The Change in MeAlejandro Vivar11d. Letter from the Streetz: Dear Hip Hop Marcus Singleton aka Iomos Marad Part IV: Decolonizing the Gang Industry12. Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority CommunitiesAnthony Gunter13. A Violent Cure? Problematizing the "Cure Violence" InitiativeMalte Riemann14. When the System Harms: An Insider’s Perspective on the Negative Socio-psychological Impact of So-Called "Gang Intervention"Tammy Tinney15. Fight Poverty, Fight Crime: A Justice Focused Approach for Toronto/CanadaYafet Tewelde and Julet Allen16. We Make the Path by Walking It: Repairing, Restoring, and Constructing PathwaysRick KellyEpilogueAdam EllisContributor Biographies

Adam Ellis is an assistant professor of criminology at the University of Waterloo and the founder of The Street Institute.Olga Marques is an associate professor of criminology and justice at Ontario Tech University.Anthony Gunter is a senior lecturer and programme lead for childhood and youth studies at The Open University.

• Introduction Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony GunterPart I: They Don’t Give a F**k about Us! Defanging and Decolonizing the Criminological Enterprise1. Problematizing Traditional Criminological Perspectives on Thugs and GangsOlga Marques 2. The White Male Criminological Gaze as Pornography: The Quasi-Sexual Academic Obsession with Black "Gang Bangers"Anthony Gunter 3. Writing Themselves Out of Research: "Whitemaleness" and the Study of "Gang" Active Young WomenClare Choak4. Somethin’ Doesn’t Seem Right: A Commentary on the "Scientific Method" and "Gang"ResearchAdam Ellis and Anthony GunterPart II: "Getting Over" and Inside the Ivory Tower5. I Am (Not) What You Say I Am: The Colonizers’ "Gang"Gregory (Chris) Brown6. A Black Scholar’s Intellectual Journey and Subsequent Perspective on the White Colonial "Gang" Project Ian Joseph7. Good Trouble: Creating Spaces for Criminalized Populations in the Ivory TowerLily Gonzalez, Javier Rodriguez, and Robert WeidePart III: Word on the Street8. Shook Ones: An Insider’s Perspective on Trauma, PTSD, and the Reenactment of Street-Related ViolenceAdam Elis, Stephanie Belanger, and Luca Berardi9. (De)Criminalizing the "Code of Silence" – Reflections of a Former "Gangbanger" Turned AcademicAnthony Hutchinson and Jared Millican 10. The Raid: State Violence and Traumatic Responses in the Lives of Black WomenMelissa McLetchie11a. Letter from the Streetz: Growing Up in the GutterChad Briand aka Turk 11b. Letter from the Streetz: Don’t Interrupt MeTG11c. Letter from the Penetentiary: The Change in MeAlejandro Vivar11d. Letter from the Streetz: Dear Hip Hop Marcus Singleton aka Iomos Marad Part IV: Decolonizing the Gang Industry12. Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority CommunitiesAnthony Gunter13. A Violent Cure? Problematizing the "Cure Violence" InitiativeMalte Riemann14. When the System Harms: An Insider’s Perspective on the Negative Socio-psychological Impact of So-Called "Gang Intervention"Tammy Tinney15. Fight Poverty, Fight Crime: A Justice Focused Approach for Toronto/CanadaYafet Tewelde and Julet Allen16. We Make the Path by Walking It: Repairing, Restoring, and Constructing PathwaysRick KellyEpilogueAdam EllisContributor Biographies