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Gunter, Anthony (2017). Race, Gangs and Youth Violence: Policy, Prevention and Policing. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.

Gunter, Anthony (2010). Growing Up Bad?: Black Youth, 'road' Culture and Badness in an East London Neighbourhood. London, UK: Tufnell Press.

Ellis, Adam; Marques, Olga and Gunter, Anthony eds. (2023). Thug Criminology: A Call to Action. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Boampong, Michael (2021). ‘Everywhere feels like home’: transnational neoliberal subjects negotiating the future. In: Horton, John; Pimlott-Wilson, Helena and Hall, Sarah Marie eds. Growing Up and Getting By: International Perspectives on Childhood and Youth in Hard Times. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 115–135.

Boampong, Michael (2019). Transnational practices and children’s local lives in times of economic crisis. In: Von Benzon, Nadia and Wilkinson, Catherine eds. Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth : Global Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 198–212.

Boampong, Michael (2019). Ghana. In: Wells, Karen ed. Teen Lives around the World: A Global Encyclopedia, Volume 1. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pp. 163–173.

Ellis, Adam and Gunter, Anthony (2023). Somethin’ Doesn’t Seem Right: A Commentary on the “Scientific Method” and “Gang”Research. In: Ellis, Adam; Marques, Olga and Gunter, Dr Anthony eds. Thug Criminology: A Call to Action. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 57–72.

Fensham-Smith, Amber (2021). Alternative Education: The Rise in Elective Home Education: Issues Related to Recognition, Collaboration and Successful Partnerships. In: Wearmouth, Janice and Lindley, Karen eds. Bringing the Curriculum to Life: Engaging Learners in the English Education System. London: Open University Press, McGraw Hill, pp. 43–62.

Gunter, Anthony (2016). From bad to worse? Marginalised youth and ‘Road life’ (mis)representations and realities. In: Blackman, Shane and Kempson, Michelle eds. The Subcultural Imagination: Theory, Research and Reflexivity in Youth Cultures. Youth, Young Adulthood and Society. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 46–62.

Gunter, Anthony (2017). Youth Transitions and Legacies in an East London Olympic Host Borough. In: Cohen, Phil and Watt, Paul eds. London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City: A Hollow Legacy? London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 287–309.

Gunter, Anthony (2023). The White Male Criminological Gaze as Pornography: The Quasi-Sexual Academic Obsession with Black “Gang Bangers”. In: Ellis, Adam; Marques, Olga and Gunter, Anthony eds. Thug Criminology: A Call to Action. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 27–41.

Gunter, Anthony (2023). Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority Communities. In: Ellis, Adam; Marques, Olga and Gunter, Anthony eds. Thug Criminology: A Call to Action. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 167–184.

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Gunter, Anthony and Holford, Naomi (2023). Transitions to Adulthood. In: Cooper, Victoria and Tatlow-Golden, Mimi eds. An Introduction to Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology. Oxon: Routledge, pp. 218–232.

Singh, Jaspal (2022). Transcultural decoloniality, global hip hop and reflexive narrative analysis. In: Solange, Maria Barros and Resende, Viviane eds. Coloniality in Discourse: A Radical Critique. London: Routledge, pp. 136–154.

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Wearmouth, Janice and Fensham-Smith, Amber (2021). Introduction. In: Wearmouth, Janice and Lindley, Karen eds. Bringing the Curriculum to Life: Engaging Learners in the English Education System. London: Open University Press McGraw Hill, pp. 1–9.

Boampong, Michael (2018). [Book review] Child and youth migration: mobility-in-migration in an era of globalization. Children's Geographies, 16(2) pp. 214–216.

Boampong, Michael (2021). [Book review] Marie Louise Seeberg and Elżbieta M Goździak, Contested Childhoods: Growing Up in Migrancy, Migration, Governance, Identities. Global Studies of Childhood, 11(1) pp. 115–117.

Choak, Clare (2022). Alternative post-16 transitions: examining the career pathways of young women 'on road'. Journal of Youth Studies, 25(3) pp. 290–306.

Choak, Clare (2021). Hegemonic Masculinity and “Badness”: How Young Women Bargain with Patriarchy “On Road". Boyhood Studies, 14(1) pp. 63–74.

Choak, Clare (2020). British Criminological Amnesia: Making the Case for a Black and Postcolonial Feminist Criminology. Decolonization of Criminology and Justice, 2(1) pp. 37–58.

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Fensham-Smith, Amber (2019). Becoming a Home-Educator in a Networked World: Towards the Democratisation of Education Alternatives? Other Education: The Journal of Educational Alternatives, 8(1) pp. 27–57.

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Gunter, Anthony (2008). Growing up bad: Black youth, ‘road’ culture and badness in an East London neighbourhood. Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 4(3) pp. 349–366.

Gunter, Anthony (2003). The Trouble with Black (Male) Youth. Criminal Justice Matters, 54(1) pp. 22–23.

Gunter, Anthony (2015). ‘Keeping it real’: the experiences of black youth beyond criminal (in)justice statistics. Criminal Justice Matters, 101(1) pp. 14–17.

Gunter, Anthony and Watt, Paul (2009). Grafting, going to college and working on road: youth transitions and cultures in an East London neighbourhood. Journal of Youth Studies, 12(5) pp. 515–529.

Boampong, Michael (2013). World Youth Report: Youth and Migration. United Nations, New York.

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Boampong, Michael (2015). Stocktake Report of Human Mobility and Migration-Related Initiatives by UNDP. United Nations Development Programme, New York.

Boampong, Michael (2014). Want job, will travel: five ways to help young immigrants find work. The Guardian, London.

Boampong, Michael (2021). Overview of Youth Development in Ghana. Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK.

Fensham-Smith, Amber (2014). Gypsy and Traveller Education: Engaging Gypsy and Traveller Families - A Research Report. Welsh Government Social Research, Welsh Government.

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Fensham-Smith, Amber (2020). Should we really call this home schooling? Reflections from the research field. BERA.

Fensham-Smith, Amber (2020). What are the issues in rethinking fieldwork-practically, theoretically, ethically? The Open University.

Fensham-Smith, Amber (2020). Towards co-operative working in alternative education. The Freedom to Learn Project, Phoenix Education Trust.

Fensham-Smith, Amber (2021). Partnership building and representing the voices of electively home educated children and young people in policymaking [Written Evidence HED0917]. Department of Education, Select Commitee Home Education Inquiry, United Kingdom.

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Joseph, Ian and Gunter, Anthony (2011). What’s a Gang and What’s Race Got to Do With It? Runnymede Trust.

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