Mean Streets :Youth Crime and Homelessness ( Cambridge Studies in Criminology )

Publication subTitle :Youth Crime and Homelessness

Publication series :Cambridge Studies in Criminology

Author: John Hagan; Bill McCarthy  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 1997

E-ISBN: 9780511888373

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521497435

Subject: D917 犯罪学

Keyword: 犯罪学

Language: ENG

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Mean Streets

Chapter

Analytic Strategy

Taking Criminology Back to the Streets

2 Street Youth and Street Settings

Backgrounds to the Street

Family Life

School

The Street lives of Homeless Youth

Searching for Food

Searching for Money

Hanging Out

Street Life

3 Taking to the Streets

Class as Background and Foreground

Reclassifying Crime Research

Bringing Back the Street

Operationalizing Our Integrated Model

Taking to the Street

Modeling Serious Theft

Effects of the Street

Linking School and Street Criminology

4 Adversity and Crime on the Street

Destitution and Crime

Adversity and Street Crime

Three Kinds of Street Crime

Explanatory Variables

The Analysis

Foreground Effects of Situational Adversity on Crime

A Further Test

The Adversity of the Street

5 The Streets of Two Cities

Street Youth and Crime in Toronto and Vancouver

Ontogenetic and Sociogenic Origins of Leaving Homeand Street Crime

Street Life and Street Crime

The Summer Panel Study

Operationalizing a Model of Street Crime in Two Cities

Estimating Models of Street Crime

The Streets of Toronto and Vancouver

6 Criminal Embeddedness and Criminal Capital

Differential Association and Tutelage in Crime

Criminal Embeddedness and Criminal Capital

Ethnographic Evidence of Embeddedness

Talking about Tutelage

Modeling Criminal Embeddedness and Capital

A Quantitative Test

Learning to Do Street Crime

7 Street Youth in Street Groups

Describing Street Families

Causes and Consequences of Street Families

Families or Gangs?

Street Families in Context

8 Street Crime Amplification

The New Sanction Theories

Sanction Sequences in the Life Course

Testing Sanction Sequences

Modeling Street Crime Amplification

A Qualitative Coda

Bridging Classical and Positivist Criminology

9 Leaving the Street

Work and the Transition to Adulthood

Employment and Crime

The Role of Dissonant Contexts

Testing the Effects of Work

Finding Work

Changing Street Trajectories

10 Street Criminology Redux

A Background of Concern

Rediscovering the Street

Social Capital Theory

Social Capital and Street Youth

From the Street

Appendix: The Methodology of Studying Street Youth

Making a Start: The First Study

Collecting the Original Toronto Data

Administering the Questionnaire

The School Survey

Panel Research and Street Youth: The Second Study

Recontacting Respondents

Attrition

Reliability and Validity

Analysis

Discussion

Notes

References

Index

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