Clean streets : controlling crime, maintaining order, and building community activism /

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With the close proximity of gangs and the easy access to drugs, keeping urban neighborhoods safe from crime has long been a central concern for residents. In Clean Streets, Patrick Carr draws on five years of research in a white, working-class community on Chicago's South side to see how they t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carr, Patrick J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2005.
Colección:New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series.
Temas:
Gang prevention > Illinois > Chicago > Citizen participation.
Crime prevention > Illinois > Chicago > Citizen participation.
Criminalité > Prévention > Illinois > Chicago > Participation des citoyens.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Crime prevention > Citizen participation
Gang prevention > Citizen participation
Social conditions
Beltway (Chicago, Ill.) > Social conditions.
Illinois > Chicago
Illinois > Chicago > Beltway
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Welcome to Beltway
  • Getting things done: civic engagement in action
  • Looks like trouble: early signs of gangs and violence
  • Gang violence can happen here: the Hastings murders and their aftermath
  • Coming together: problem solving and the neighborhood watch
  • Conclusion: civic activism and the new parochialism
  • Appendix: getting in and out of Beltway.

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