America’s Safest City : : Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia / / Simon I. Singer.
Winner of the American Society of Criminology 2015 Michael J. Hindelang Book Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in CriminologySince 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,...
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Singer, Simon I., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut America’s Safest City : Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia / Simon I. Singer. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law ; 3 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. America’s Safest Cities -- 2. Confronting Modernity and Adolescence -- 3. Relational Modernity -- 4. Beyond a Street-Corner View of Delinquency -- 5. The Trouble with Youth in America’s Safest City -- 6. Suburbia’s Discontents -- 7. Safe-City Offending -- 8. Safe Cities and the Struggle to Be Relationally Modern -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Winner of the American Society of Criminology 2015 Michael J. Hindelang Book Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in CriminologySince 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 America’s Safest City, noted juvenile justice scholar Simon I. Singer uses the types of delinquency seen in Amherst as a case study illuminating the roots of juvenile offending and deviance in modern society. If we are to understand delinquency, Singer argues, we must understand it not just in impoverished areas, but in affluent ones as well.Drawing on ethnographic work, interviews with troubled youth, parents and service providers, and extensive surveys of teenage residents in Amherst, the book illustrates how a suburban environment is able to provide its youth with opportunities to avoid frequent delinquencies. Singer compares the most delinquent teens he surveys with the least delinquent, analyzing the circumstances that did or did not lead them to deviance and the ways in which they confront their personal difficulties, societal discontents, and serious troubles. Adolescents, parents, teachers, coaches and officials, he concludes, are able in this suburban setting to recognize teens’ need for ongoing sources of trust, empathy, and identity in a multitude of social settings, allowing them to become what Singer terms ‘relationally modern’ individuals better equipped to deal with the trials and tribulations of modern life. A unique and comprehensive study, America’s Safest City is a major new addition to scholarship on juveniles and crime in America.Crime, Law and Social Change's special issue on America's Safest City Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Juvenile delinquency New York (State) Amherst New York (State) Amherst. Juvenile delinquency New York (State) Amherst. Juvenile delinquents New York (State) Amherst. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110728996 print 9780814760536 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814770306.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814770306 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814770306/original |
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