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How structural inequality fuels Black youth recruitment into cycles of violence
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The article examines systemic factors driving Black youth recruitment into drug trafficking networks in northern Ontario, citing prison abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore's argument that solutions require investment in housing, education, and community spaces rather than increased policing.
How structural inequality fuels Black youth recruitment into cycles of violence
What would it take to stop Black boys from disappearing into drug trafficking networks across northern Ontario? Not more policing, argues prison abolitionist and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore, but more safe housing, funded schools and community spaces where youth can gather safely.
That is what a growing body of Black community leaders is arguing in response to a crisis that The Fifth Estate documentary Missing Black Boys brought into national view in January: Black boys as young as 14 are lured
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