Mean streets : youth crime and homelessness / John Hagan, Bill McCarthy ; in collaboration with Patricia Parker and Jo-Ann Climenhage.
"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 th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Series: | Cambridge criminology series
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| Summary: | "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. John Hagan is a Winner of the Sunderland Prize of the American Society for Criminology for a lifetime body of work."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-291) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521497434 9780521497435 |