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Tarnished Vision - Crime and Conflict in the Inner City (Hardcover): David Robins

Tarnished Vision - Crime and Conflict in the Inner City (Hardcover)

David Robins

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Once a group of young people (reformed street robbers) had a vision. To transform their poor divided community. But the vision was tarnished by harsh reality, violent feuds and factional strife, corrupt and ineffective leaders, and youths involved in networks of criminality.
LTarnished Vision is the story of the rise and fall of a utopian community project told against a background of crime and delinquency in a troubled neighbourhood. This vivid and authentic account of life in Satellite City' is set in the 1980s, a decade when the promises of the enterprise culture failed to deliver, and the conditions were created for a generation hooked on crime.
Tarnished Vision depicts the 1980s inner city cycle of social tragedy followed by inept societal response, followed by social tragedy. But this is not only a story for the 1980s. The message is that programmes to save the inner cities, however well-resoourced, cannot afford to ignore the destructive frustrations of urban male youths wh are involved in crime. Community action programmes can be no more than window dressing to camouflage these realities.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 1992
First published: November 1992
Authors: David Robins (Study Director)
Dimensions: 225 x 147 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-825751-6
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Causes & prevention of crime
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Local government > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Children
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Adolescents
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LSN: 0-19-825751-1
Barcode: 9780198257516

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