Under Siege is one of the first books of its kind. It vividly describes the devastating consequences of living in a public housing community damaged by the disappearance of manufacturing jobs, government cutbacks, and other alarming structural transformations that currently plague the United States and Canada. Walter DeKeseredy and his colleagues build on the rich theoretical perspectives developed by feminist scholars--as well as those constructed by Jock Young, Robert Sampson, and William Julius Wilson--as they present both the qualitative and quantitative results of a case study of six...