"Getting Paid" : Youth Crime and Work in the Inner City /
The working class in New York City was remade in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1820s a substantial majority of city artisans were native-born; by the 1850s three-quarters of the city's laboring men and women were immigrants. How did the influx of this large group of young adults affect the...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1989.
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Table des matières:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Social Theory And Neighborhood Research
- 2. The Neighborhoods
- 3. Schooling
- 4. Employment
- 5. Getting Into Crime
- 6. Crime In La Barriada
- 7. Crime In Projectville
- 8. Crime In Hamilton Park
- 9. Empirical Comparison Of Crime Patterns
- 10. Youth Crime And Social Theory
- 11. Youth Crime And Social Policy
- Appendix: Procedures For Notifying Research Participants In The Neighborhood Study
- Bibliography
- Index


