Responses to gang violence in Bermuda: understanding identity through crime talk

Thesis

This thesis explores whether gang violence has disrupted Bermudian conceptions of identity, and questions whether public reflection on crime can transform social relations. Using interviews, social media discourse and anonymous comment threads, I examine ‘crime talk’ about Bermudian gang violence in order to understand how crime disrupts narratives of place and identity. The methodology accesses multiple arenas of talk to observe how audience and forum influence what people say about crime...

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Authors: Ross, E

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-vygbpxjed
• Language: English
• Keywords: postcolonialism; fear of crime; Bermuda; criminology; community; race; feminist; gender; island crime; gang violence; masculinities; intersectional criminology; feminist criminology; gangs; Bermudian; public sensibilities to crime; critical race theory; phenomenology; interpretative phenomenology; moral panic; island criminology; crime talk; crime and masculinity
• Subjects: Bermuda Island (Bermuda Islands); Gangs; Phenomenology; Island Criminology; Critical race theory; Authors, Bermudian; Criminology; Feminist criminology; Critical criminology; Public opinion; Postcolonialism; Moral panics