Bibliograph

Mean streets, youth crime and homelessness, John Hagan, Bill McCarthy ; in collaboration with Patricia Parker and Jo-Ann Climenhage

Type

Label

Mean streets, youth crime and homelessness, John Hagan, Bill McCarthy ; in collaboration with Patricia Parker and Jo-Ann Climenhage

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mean streets

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

730466994

Responsibility statement

John Hagan, Bill McCarthy ; in collaboration with Patricia Parker and Jo-Ann Climenhage

Series statement

Cambridge studies in criminologyCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

youth crime and homelessness

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

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