Mean Streets - Youth Crime and Homelessness

Informationen zum Autor John Hagan was born in Presque Isle, Maine, and short-ly thereafter his family returned to Dayton, Ohio, where he was reared and educated. Retiring from a career as a high school English teacher and secondary administrator, he was hired as an adjunct, composition instructor at The University of Dayton, where he taught for six years. Leaving U.D. for total retirement from education, John now spends much of his time between his home in Springboro, Ohio and his labor of love, a forty-acre horse farm in Highland County, Ohio. John earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in English and secondary school administration at Thomas More College, Xavier University, and Miami University.. Klappentext A field study! featuring intensive personal interviews! of young people living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver. Zusammenfassung This field study! featuring intensive interviews of youth living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver! examines why youth take to the streets! their struggles to survive! victimization! involvement in crime! contacts with the police! and efforts to rejoin conventional society. Major theories of youth crime are analyzed and reappraised. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Street and school criminologies; 2. Street youth in street settings; 3. Taking to the streets; 4. Adversity and crime on the streets; 5. The streets of two cities; 6. Criminal embeddedness and criminal capital; 7. Street youth in street groups; 8. Street crime amplification; 9. Leaving the street; 10. Street crime redux.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John Hagan, John Mccarthy Hagan, Bill Mccarthy, McCarthy Bill
• Mitarbeit: Alfred Blumstein (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.08.1998
• EAN: 9780521646260
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64626-0
• Seiten: 320
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Criminology; Cambridge Criminology; Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Sozialpädagogik, Soziale Arbeit; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Strafrecht, Strafprozessrecht, Kriminologie; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Juvenile offenders