C/O Futures Book Review
Robert J. Bunker
6 September 2024
Adam Baird, the author of the work From South Central to Southside, holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bradford. He works for the United Nations (UN) with a research focus on Conventional Arms and Ammunition and is also a Research Fellow with the London School of Economics (LSE) with a focus on Guatemala.[1] He is also “a globally recognised expert in masculinities and recently developed the concepts of ‘chronic vulnerability’ and ‘masculine vulnerability’ to explain the persistence of violence in poor urban communities.”[2] The work represents his first academic book effort and is extremely well structured, researched, and written. It is derived from his field research trips in Belize and builds up his earlier country (and local gangs) specific scholarship published in Men and Masculinities, Urban Crime, and The Routledge Handbook of Gangs. The time period focused upon is primarily pre-2020, given the research to publication time lag. The work is published by Temple University Press as a part of its series Studies in Transgression edited by David Brotherton (professor at John Jay College), which also includes a book by the noted gang expert John M. Hagedorn.
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