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Clean Streets: Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law, 8) by Patrick J. Carr is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Clean Streets: Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law, 8) about?
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
Who reads Clean Streets: Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law, 8)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Patrick J. Carr
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780814717233
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, True Crime, Crime
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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