Americaas Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia
Winner of the American Society of Criminology 2015 Michael J. Hindelang Book Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in CriminologySince the mid-1990s, the fast-growing suburb of Amherst, NY has been voted by numerous publications as one of the safest places to live in America. Yet, like many of America's seemingly idyllic suburbs, Amherst is by no means without crime—especially when it comes to adolescents. In America's Safest City, noted juvenile justice scholar Simon I. Singer uses the types of delinquency seen in Amherst as a case study illuminating the roots of juvenile offending and deviance in modern society. If we are…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8147-6080-2
- EAN: 9780814760802
- Produktnummer: 16286983
- Verlag: New York Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 305 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.3 cm 425 g
- Gewicht: 425
Über den Autor
Simon I. Singer is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. Previously, he was Professor of Sociology at the University of Buffalo, SUNY. He is the author of Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform (1996), winner of the American Sociological Association's 1999 Distinguished Scholar Award in Crime, Law and Deviance.
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