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  1. TRAP definition: 1. a device or hole for catching animals or people and preventing their escape: 2. a dangerous or…. Learn more.

  2. What does the noun trap mean? There are 27 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun trap . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

  3. What does the verb trap mean? There are 15 meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb trap . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

  4. The Hand in the Trap (Spanish: La mano en la trampa) is a 1961 Argentine film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and starring Francisco Rabal, Elsa Daniel and Leonardo Favio. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. [1]

    • Introduction
    • Reframing Urban Criminality/Violence: The Psychosocial U-Turn
    • Entering ‘Trap Life’
    • Trapper Typology: Different Degrees of ‘Trappedness’ and Vulnerability ‘On Road’
    • Conclusion

    The concept of ‘trap life’ is yet to impact on discussions about serious violence in the United Kingdom, apart from some brief references in the academic literature on young people’s involvement in illicit drug markets (see Irwin-Rogers 2019; Storrod and Densley 2017). News media, politicians, police and even criminologists have failed to recognize...

    UK research on urban criminality/violence has seen some movement towards broadening the discourse away from traditional gang explanations. Not only has there been an emerging strand of interpretive ethnographic studies that explore from a ground-up perspective, the lived experience of marginalized young people involved in ‘on road’ and/or street co...

    This article is drawn from a larger ethnographic study undertaken in a disadvantaged London housing estate I refer to as Northville, the pseudonym I have given the neighbourhood to protect the men I grew up with. Like several other ethnographic studies, this research involved directly observing and immersing myself in the lives of the participants ...

    Here I present a new typology of street collectives, which offers a more empathetic, dynamic alternative to existing ‘gang’ discourse (e.g. Harding et al. 2019). This trapper typology is based on the ways in which men on road develop adaptive strategies around ‘trapping’ (drug dealing) to different extents depending on circumstances, opportunities,...

    The ethnographic material presented here highlights the case for a deeper inspection of traumatic childhood events alongside socioeconomic and cultural dynamics, all of which shape the psychology of urban drug dealers as they respond to existential suffering. Too often criminological accounts of drug dealers, gangs and county lines depict (usually ...

  5. trap Definition. 1 a device or enclosure designed to catch and retain animals, typically by allowing entry but not exit or by catching hold of a part of the body. 2 a situation in which people lie in wait to make a surprise attack.

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  7. In The Hand in the Trap, one of the director’s most successful works, Elsa Daniel uncovers the secret of her aunt’s withdrawal from the world and arranges a confrontation with the man who jilted her.

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