Clean streets controlling crime, maintaining order, and building community activism /

Main Author: Carr, Patrick J.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, c2005.
Series:New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10280031
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Welcome to Beltway
  • Getting things done: civic engagement in action
  • Looks like trouble: early signs of gangs and violence
  • Gang violence can happen here: the Hastings murders and their aftermath
  • Coming together: problem solving and the neighborhood watch
  • Conclusion: civic activism and the new parochialism
  • Appendix: getting in and out of Beltway.