America's Safest City - Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia

Klappentext Since the mid-1990s! the fast-growing suburb of Amherst! NY has been voted by numerous publications as one of the safest places to live in America. This book uses the types of delinquency seen in Amherst as a case study illuminating the roots of juvenile offending and deviance in modern society. Zusammenfassung Since the mid-1990s! the fast-growing suburb of Amherst! NY has been voted by numerous publications as one of the safest places to live in America. This book uses the types of delinquency seen in Amherst as a case study illuminating the roots of juvenile offending and deviance in modern society.

Product details

• Authors: Simon I. Singer
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2014
• EAN: 9780814760536
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-6053-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law; New Perspectives in Crime, Dev; New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology