The Violent Practices of Youth Territorial Groups in Moscow

Svetlana Stephenson

Europe-Asia Studies, 2012, vol. 64, issue 1, 69-90

Abstract: This article analyses the violent practices of youth territorial groups in Moscow. These groups exist on the city periphery and mainly involve young people (most of them male), who are not well integrated into society through the schooling system. Rather than simply depending on violence as a survival tool within the dangerous and uncertain space of the streets, or as an instrument for crime, the members of these groups use their collective mastery of it as proof of elite status, in accordance with cultural prescriptions drawn from deep historical traditions.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2011.635894

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