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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- 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