Essays about: "Lisa Rådbo"

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1. 1. Becoming a Citizen:The Process of Leaving a Gang in Cape Town, South Africa

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan; Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Lisa Rådbo; [2015]
   Keywords : Gangs; Gang-exit; Role-exit; Social Policy; Cape Flats; Cape Town; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study investigates the process of how eight people left competing informal institutions, in the form of gangs, to join substitutive informal institutions, which is more compatible with a democratic society, and in this way became ‘good citizens’. The research question is as follows: How do ex-gang members explain their change in lifestyle, from past involvement in gangs to the subsequent transformation in their present day lives? Life-story interviews have been carried out with former gang members that have then been transcribed and analysed in alignment with Riessman’s (2008) dialogic/performance analysis and Rose Ebough´s (1988) Role-exit theory. READ MORE