UID:
almafu_9959238302502883
Format:
1 online resource (249 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-25602-7
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1-134-25603-5
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1-280-10692-1
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0-203-00166-4
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Sociology
Content:
Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City offers an interpretive account of juvenile delinquency within the modern inner city, an environment which is characterized by a long history of social deprivation and high rates of crime. A wide range of topics are explored, such as young people's motivation for, frequency of, and attitudes towards, a variety of illegal behaviors, such as street robbery, burglary, theft, drug use, drug selling and violence. Why do young people commit these offences? Who do they commit them against? How do they feel afterwards? This book attempts to answe
Note:
Data from interviews with 31 young people and 37 professionals in the London borough of Lambeth.
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 Research in the inner city; 2 Lambeth; 3 Robbery burglary theft; 4 Drug use and drug selling; 5 Graffiti joyriding vandalism; 6 Violence; 7 Style group behaviour interactions with the police; 8 The moral universes of young people who have offended; 9 What is to be done about crime and delinquency in Lambeth; Notes; Appendix interview schedules; References; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-43975-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-35503-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203001660
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