Crime in the city

Resource Information

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Label

Crime in the city

Instantiates

• Crime in the city

Publication

• New York, Harper & Row, 1970

Bibliography note

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 281-303)

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

America as an urban society -- The urban crisis -- The nature of the slum -- Industrialization and urbanization in relation to crime and juvenile delinquency -- Socio-economic class and area as correlates of illegal behavior among juveniles -- Metropolitan crime rates and relative deprivation -- Assessing the contributions of family structure, class and peer groups to juvenile delinquency -- Urban crime patterns -- Issues in the ecological study of delinquency -- Social disorganization and stake in conformity : complementary factors in the predatory behavior of hoodlums -- The function of social definitions in the development of delinquent careers -- El Barrio's worst block is not all bad -- Deviant behavior as an unanticipated consequence of public housing -- Structural deviance and normative conformity : the "hustle" and the gang -- Violence and the city -- The social control role of the police in changing urban communities -- The death and life of great American cities -- The judge as bureaucrat -- Some notes on urban jails -- The shape of the future -- The prison of the future -- Summary of recommendations

Control code

47441

Dimensions

21 cm

Extent

ix, 308 pages

Lccn

78086990

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Record ID

.b11663595

System control number

(WaOLN)187614