John Hagan

Mean Streets

Youth Crime and Homelessness
Herausgeber: Blumstein, Alfred; Farrington, David P.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Table of contents:
1. Street and school criminologies; 2. Street youth in street settings; 3. Taking to the streets; 4. Adversity and crime on the streets; 5. The streets of two cities; 6. Criminal embeddedness and criminal capital; 7. Street youth in street groups; 8. Street crime amplification; 9. Leaving the street; 10. Street crime redux.

This field study, featuring intensive interviews of youth living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver, examines why youth take to the streets, their struggles to survive, victimization, involvement in crime, contacts with the police, and efforts to rejoin conventional society. Major theories of youth crime are analyzed and reappraised.

A field study, featuring intensive personal interviews, of young people living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9780521497435
• ISBN-10: 0521497434
• Artikelnr.: 22266146

Autorenporträt

John Hagan was born in Presque Isle, Maine, and short-ly thereafter his family returned to Dayton, Ohio, where he was reared and educated. Retiring from a career as a high school English teacher and secondary administrator, he was hired as an adjunct, composition instructor at The University of Dayton, where he taught for six years. Leaving U.D. for total retirement from education, John now spends much of his time between his home in Springboro, Ohio and his labor of love, a forty-acre horse farm in Highland County, Ohio. John earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in English and secondary school administration at Thomas More College, Xavier University, and Miami University. .

Inhaltsangabe

1. Street and school criminologies
2. Street youth in street settings
3. Taking to the streets
4. Adversity and crime on the streets
5. The streets of two cities
6. Criminal embeddedness and criminal capital
7. Street youth in street groups
8. Street crime amplification
9. Leaving the street
10. Street crime redux.