Author: Greg Scott

Title: ‘It’s a sucker’s outfit’: How urban gangs enable and impede the reintegration of ex-convicts

This scholarly journal is looking at how gangs affects ex-gang member’s life after they have been released from jail and gone back to their neighborhoods. So, I would say that the research question is “how do drug-dealing gangs shape the pre- and post-carceral lives of male ex-convicts in Chicago”. The type of data needed for this research is Acts, Behavior, and Events. The author wants to see what these ex-convicts do after they come out of jail. So, the look at their acts, behaviors, and any event that is going on. Given that the data collection method the author used was an Ethnography. He conducted 18 ethnographies with former and gang affiliates. But he also conducted an additional 85 interviews. The method for data analysis is qualitative. The act, behaviors, and events where described in words therefore make the information qualitative. The results of this study were that these ex-convicts where being exploited on both sides of the end. They faced poverty and institutionalized racism so they would join a gang and once they were inside they realized that the gang was just as exploitative as the mainstream institutions. This is great for my project because it gives me another perspective on what I can look at when I do my project. This is a new possibility on why people leave gangs because they are being exploited and I had never thought about that and will further investigate the exploitation.