Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness

by John Hagan and Bill McCarthy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521497434
• ISBN13: 9780521497435
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"