Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521497435)

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.

Author: John Hagan
ISBN-10: 0521497434
ISBN-13: 9780521497435
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/13/1997
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d