America's safest city : delinquency and modernity in suburbia /
"Since the mid-1990s, the fast-growing suburb of Amherst, NY has been voted by numerous publications as one of the safest places to live in America. Yet, like many of America's seemingly idyllic suburbs, Amherst is by no means without crime--especially when it comes to adolescents. In Amer...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2014
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| Series: | New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- America's safest cities
- Confronting modernity and adolescence
- Relational modernity
- Beyond a street-corner view of delinquency
- The trouble with youth in America's safest city
- Suburbia's discontents
- Safe-city offending
- Safe cities and the struggle to be relationally modern.
