Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness

ISBN-13: 9780521497435 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 320 str.

John Hagan; Alfred Blumstein; David P. Farrington

Opis

This field study features intensive personal interviews of more than four hundred young people who have left home and school and are living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver. The study examines why youth take to the streets, their struggles to survive there, 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 rejoin conventional society. Major theories of youth crime are analyzed and reappraised in the context of a new social capital theory of crime.

Recenzje

"The authors have succeeded well in reaching their elusive population of interest (i.e., homeless youth) and have carried out a first-class empirical study of the linkages between their social conditions and criminal activity. The most understanding feature of the book lies in its imaginative operationalization of concepts and sophisticated empirical testing of theories and hypotheses. It would be difficult to find a better example of demanding, quality empirical research for fellow researchers to learn from." CJS Online

Spis treści

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.