Over the last two decades or so, community-based efforts have been increasingly pushed to the front line and promoted as the 'best' way to solve many, if not most, of our social problems--including homelessness, drug addiction, the spread of infectious diseases, home-grown terrorism, and delinquency and youth violence. Community-based, social justice organizations orient to youth crime as a product of social injustice. They have creative and often radical ideas about how social change can foster personal change and work daily to transform the social and penal policies aimed at poor young...