Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
by John Hagan
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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John Hagan is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University, University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Toronto, and a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation.
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- Nonfiction, Sociology
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- 364.36 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Crime Criminals Juvenile criminals
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- HV9110 .T7 .H33 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminal justice administration Penology. Prisons. Corrections The juvenile offender. Juvenile delinquency.
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