Americaas Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia

by Simon I. Singer

Book Overview

Winner of the American Society of Criminology 2015 Michael J. Hindelang Book Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology

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. Yet, like many of America's seemingly idyllic suburbs, Amherst is by no means without crime--especially when it comes to adolescents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814760538
• ISBN13: 9780814760536
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"