Clean Streets
Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism
With the close proximity of gangs and the easy access to drugs, keeping urban neighborhoods safe from crime has long been a central concern for residents. In Clean Streets, Patrick Carr draws on five years of research in a white, working-class community on Chicago's South side to see how they tried to keep their streets safe. Carr details the singular event for this community and the resulting rise of community activism: the shootings of two local teenage girls outside of an elementary school by area gang members. As in many communities struck by similar violence, the shootings led to profound changes in the community's relationship to crime…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8147-9003-8
- EAN: 9780814790038
- Produktnummer: 22570396
- Verlag: NYU Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 209 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'022 KB
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