Clean Streets: Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism

by Patrick J. Carr

Book Overview

With the close proximity of gangs and the easy access to drugs, keeping urban neighborhoods safe from crime has long been a central concern for residents. In Clean Streets, Patrick Carr draws on five years of research in a white, working-class community on Chicago's South side to see how they tried to keep their streets safe. Carr details the singular event for this community and the resulting rise of community activism: the shootings of two local...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814716636
• ISBN13: 9780814716632
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"