Clean Streets : Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism / Patrick J. Carr.
Carr, Patrick J., author.
2005
HV6439.U7 C349 2005
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Title Clean Streets : Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism / Patrick J. Carr.
Author Carr, Patrick J., author.
ISBN 9780814790038
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814790038.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2005]
Copyright ©2005
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814790038.001.0001 doi
Call Number HV6439.U7 C349 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.4/3/0977311
Summary 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 teenage girls outside of an elementary school by area gang members. As in many communities struck by similar violence, the shootings led to profound changes in the community's relationship to crime prevention. Notably, their civic activism has proved successful and, years after the shooting, community involvement remains strong.Carr mines this story of an awakened neighborhood for unique insights, contributing a new perspective to the national debate on community policing, civic activism, and the nature of social control. Clean Streets offers an important story of one community's struggle to confront crime and to keep their homes safe. Their actions can be seen as a model for how other communities can face up to similarly difficult problems.
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Series New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law ; ; 8
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780814716632
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Welcome to Beltway
3. Getting Things Done
4. Looks Like Trouble
5. Gang Violence Can Happen Here
6. Coming Together
7. Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
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