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Mean Streets

Youth Crime and Homelessness

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

AvJohn Hagan,Bill McCarthy,Alfred Blumstein,David P. Farrington

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Mean Streets is a field study of young people who have left home and school and are living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver. This book includes the personal narratives and explanatory accounts, in their own words, of some of the more than four hundred young people who participated in the summer-long study, which featured intensive personal interviews. The study examines why youth take to the streets, their struggles to survive on the street, their victimization and involvement in crime, their associations with other street youth, especially within 'street families', their contacts with the police, and their efforts to leave the street and rejoin conventional society. Major theories of youth crime are analyzed and reappraised in the context of a new social capital theory of crime.

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Utgivningsdatum1997-07-13
Mått159 x 236 x 28 mm
Vikt600 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in Criminology
Antal sidor320
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521497435
UtmärkelserSunderland Prize of the American Society for Criminology

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"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