• 1. Street and school criminologies; 2. Street youth in street settings; 3. Taking to the streets; 4. Adversity and crime on the streets; 5. The streets of two cities; 6. Criminal embeddedness and criminal capital; 7. Street youth in street groups; 8. Street crime amplification; 9. Leaving the street; 10. Street crime redux.

"Hagan and McCarthy show in an evocative new way why social programs to combat homelessness, hunger, and child abuse; active labour market programs; and resorative justice, rather than stigmatizing punishment, are the policy prescription that should occupy our attention. Homeless youth are found not to be alone and untouchable, but touched in destructive ways that might be repaired. Through making the shift from school criminology to street criminology, Hagan and McCarthy suggest how the field might shake off its current nihilism. Mean Streets reframes criminology's great debates with data of a most illuminating sort." John Braithwaite, The Australian National University