Sally Atkinson-Sheppard
This article presents a study of street children’s involvement in organized crime in Bangladesh. It is based on an empirical case study conducted in Dhaka and draws on interviews with 22 street children, 80 interviews with criminal justice practitioners, NGO workers and community members and over th...
Sally Atkinson-Sheppard
Children’s agency has dominated discourse about young people in recent years, yet little is known about street children’s agency in regard to involvement in organised crime, particularly in Bangladesh. Drawing on interviews with 22 street children, 80 interviews with criminal justice practitioners a...
Sally Atkinson-Sheppard
Sally Atkinson-Sheppard
This case considers the use of an ethnographic case study to explore the involvement of street children in organized crime in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The case explains why the subject of street children’s involvement in organized crime was necessary to study, it then reflects on the methods used—a qualit...
Sally Atkinson-Sheppard
The article considers the methodological opportunities and challenges associated with three large-scale ethnographic studies conducted in Bangladesh, China, and Nepal. It reflects on how locally and regionally embedded cultural practises and meanings shape Asian criminological research projects. The...
Sally Atkinson-Sheppard
This chapter considers the landscape of gangs and organised crime. By drawing on two large-scale qualitative case studies conducted in Bangladesh and mainland China, the chapter explores the nature and dynamics of gangs and how these criminal groups operate in each country, often in alliance with th...
Sally Atkinson-Sheppard
This book presents a study of street children’s involvement as workers in Bangladeshi organised crime groups based on a three-year ethnographic study in Dhaka. The book argues that ‘mastaans’ are Bangladeshi mafia groups that operate in a market for crime, violence and social protection. It consider...
Sally Atkinson-Sheppard
Sally Atkinson-Sheppard
Sally Atkinson-Sheppard
This paper considered the landscape of gangs and organised crime. By drawing on a comparative analysis of 2 large-scale qualitative case studies conducted in Bangladesh and Mainland China, the paper explores the nature and the dynamics of gangs and how these criminal groups operate in each country, ...
Weidi Liu
Sally Atkinson-Sheppard
This chapter considers the landscape of criminal groups in Dhaka. It begins by exploring the mastaans and how and in what instances street children are hired as the ‘illicit labourers’ of these groups. It explores a variety of other criminal groups, including organised crime groups which are distinc...
Sally Atkinson-Sheppard