Young, Muslim and Criminal: Experiences, Identities and Pathways into Crime

Young British male Muslims have recent years been the subject of increasingly negative stereotyping, presented as inherently dangerous and criminal. In reality, few studies have attempted to explore the lives, behavior, and motivations of young British Muslims who actually do commit crimes. This book, based on four years of ethnographic research with a group of British Pakistani Muslim men who had committed criminal offenses, offers unprecedented insight into their lives. Mohammed Qasim explores their identities and explains what role, if any, religion and Pakistani culture played in their criminal behavior.