Mean Streets

Youth Crime and Homelessness

Bibliographic Data

ID23393416
AuthorsJohn Elvis Hagan (0000-0003-3530-6133, University of Toronto), John Hagan, B Mccarthy (0000-0002-5593-9918, University of Victoria)
Year1997
Publication date1997-07-13
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byMean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness, Bill O’grady, 1998
Reviewed byMean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness, Irving Piliavin, 1998
Reviewed byMean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness, M S Fleisher, 1998
VenueMean Streets (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511625497
OpenAlexW4253933992
Open LibraryOL34443737M
ISBN9780511625497
LanguageEN
Citations received470

Mean Streets is a field study of young people who have left home and school and are living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver. This book includes the personal narratives and explanatory accounts, in their own words, of some of the more than four hundred young people who participated in the summer-long study, which featured intensive personal interviews. The study examines why youth take to the streets, their struggles to survive on the street, their victimization and involvement in crime, their associations with other street youth, especially within 'street families', their contacts with the police, and their efforts to leave the street and rejoin conventional society. Major theories of youth crime are analyzed and reappraised in the context of a new social capital theory of crime.

Archaeology · Art · Capital (architecture) · Capital city · Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Economic geography · Geography · Narrative · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues

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