Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness

Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness Book Description

This field study features intensive personal interviews of more than four hundred young people who have left home and school and are living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver. The study examines why youth take to the streets, their struggles to survive there, 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 rejoin conventional society. Major theories of youth crime are analyzed and reappraised in the context of a new social capital theory of crime.

John Hagan has contributed to Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness as an author. John Hagan is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University, University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Toronto, and Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. A Guggenheim fellow, he is past president of the American Society of Criminology and the author or coauthor of ten books, most recently "Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada," which received the Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association.

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