Ballesté, Eduard, 1988-Feixa, Carles, 1962-2022-10-112022-10-112022Ballesté-Isern E, Feixa C. Creating insecurity through youth street groups and applying security for control and governance: a case study of Barcelona Latin Kings. Crit Criminol. 2022;30:741-56. DOI: 10.1007/s10612-022-09653-w1205-8629http://hdl.handle.net/10230/54340This paper is based on an ethnographic study of the arrests and the subsequent trial and sentencing of a group of Latin Kings and Queens from Barcelona between 2015 and 2020. We analyze the actions carried out by the police, judicial institutions and media to reestab‑ lish the “hard handed” discourse in relation to these youth street groups in a time of crisis and precariousness. The concept of a “space of youth street groups” is used to construct a tool for mapping the agents who interact with these groups and the position they occupy in the social space. The interactions between these agents in Barcelona confgure a new form of security governance through the creation of subjective insecurity and the promotion of punitive policies against youth street groups.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2022 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Com‑ mons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.BandesViolència - Aspectes socialsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-022-09653-winfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess