Youth gangs, masculinity and violence in late Victorian Manchester and Salford.
From: Journal of Social History
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Date: 12/22/1998
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Author: Davies, Andrew
This article examines the "scuttling" gangs of late Victorian Manchester and Salford, drawing upon a sample of 250 gang-related crimes of violence reported in the local press between 1870 and 1900. Over 90 percent of those charged in these cases were working-class males aged between fourteen and nineteen. Affrays between rival neighbourhood-based gangs, which were characterised by the widespread use of knives, were not confined to the most notorious "slum" districts but spanned the ...
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