2.1 intro to urban criminal collaborations

Question 1

whos concept is urban criminal collaborations

Answer 1

fraser and hobbs 2023

Question 2

what is urban criminal collaborations concept used in preference to more popularised notions like…

Answer 2

the gang or organised crime

Question 3

the concept of criminal collaborations switches the analytical focus from types of…

Answer 3

types of criminal actor to problems fo crime

Question 4

the concept of criminal collaborations differentiates between

Answer 4

different kinds of problems which can be but are not necessarily related e.g. violence agaisnt the person, vice and illicit drug trade

Question 5

concept of criminal collaborations can recognise problems of crime beyond what?

Answer 5

• beyond the usual suspects of street crime that are relatively ignored
• or of harms that are yet to be criminalised but arguably should be

Question 6

the concept of criminal collaborations understands that these urban problems in CONTEXT are…

Answer 6

• not necessarily the same as in another
• or in the same city but in different historical periods

Question 7

the concept of criminal collaborations critiicsies concepts of the gang or organsied crime for being

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Answer 7

• abstract
• ethnocentric
• ahistorical

Question 8

what does abstract mean

Answer 8

focussing on only one element of what makes crimes possible

Question 9

what does ethnocentric and ahistorical means

Answer 9

generalising from very particular contexts irrespective of their different social, economic and political conditions

e.g. chicago in early 20th century

Question 10

what underpins hallsworth and youngs 2008 argument about the analytiical shift

Answer 10

this analytical shift from abstract concepts of the gang to concrete problems of criminal collaboration

Question 11

what does ontology mean for criminal collaborations

Answer 11

what makes criminological problems possible