CCJ 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Blue-Collar Worker, Peer Support, Social Capital
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CCJ 250 – Lecture 29
Desistance – Structure & Agency
Bracken et al. (2009)
• OPK Program
• Aboriginal gang members
• Agency & Structure
Social Marginalization
• Economically
o Inadequate Housing
o Higher Levels of Unemployment
• CJ Dipartites
o Bail
o Detention
o Charges
o Incarceration
Colonialism
• Structural
o Barriers to owning land
• Cultural
o Restrictions on practicing customs
o Residential schools
o Intergenerational effects
Gangs provide
• Status
• Peer support
• Protection
OPK Program
• Former offenders
• Work opportunities
• Aboriginal cultural learning
• Counseling
• Educational opportunities
Holistic Healing
• Dealing with trauma
• Dealing with stereotypes
• Recognizing inequities
• Regaining ‘lost’ culture
• New forms of social capital
Social Captial
• “resources in common norms and mutual trust developed across social networks”
Building Social Capital
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