Mean streets : youth crime and homelessness / John Hagan, Bill McCarthy ; in collaboration with Patr...
Mean streets : youth crime and homelessness / John Hagan, Bill McCarthy ; in collaboration with Patr...
Mean streets : youth crime and homelessness / John Hagan, Bill McCarthy ; in collaboration with Patricia Parker and Jo-Ann Climenhage.
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Publisher
Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Date
1997.
Call Numbers
N364.3609711/1
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xv, 299 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Foreword / James F. Short, Jr. -- 1. Street and School Criminologies -- 2. Street Youth and Street Settings -- 3. Taking to the Streets -- 4. Adversity and Crime on the Street -- 5. The Streets of Two Cities -- 6. Criminal Embeddedness and Criminal Capital -- 7. Street Youth in Street Groups -- 8. S...
Publication information
Publisher
Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1997.
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Scope and Contents
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 i...
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Full title
Mean streets : youth crime and homelessness / John Hagan, Bill McCarthy ; in collaboration with Patricia Parker and Jo-Ann Climenhage.
Notes
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Cambridge criminology series.
First paperback edition published: 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-291) and index.
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N364.3609711/1
Record Identifier
74VM4A5k37Xl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM4A5k37Xl
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ISBN
0521497434 (hbk.)
9780521497435
0521497434
052164626X (pbk.)
9780521497435 (hbk.)
DDC
364.36097112
MMS ID
991001509869702626
