| Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness Contributor(s): Hagan, John (Author), McCarthy, Bill (Author) |
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ISBN: 052164626X ISBN-13: 9780521646260 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1998 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 364.36 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminology |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.07" W x 9.03" (1.03 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |