Mean Streets - Youth Crime and Homelessness (Hardcover)

This field study features intensive personal interviews of more than four hundred young people who have left home and school and are living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver. The study examines why youth take to the streets, their struggles to survive there, 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 rejoin conventional society. Major theories of youth crime are analyzed and reappraised in the context of a new social capital theory of crime.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Criminology
Release date:	July 1997
First published:	1998
Authors:	John Hagan • Bill McCarthy
Dimensions:	236 x 159 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-49743-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Offenders > Juvenile offenders
LSN:	0-521-49743-4
Barcode:	9780521497435

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