Clean streets
Subtitle: controlling crime, maintaining order, and building community activism
By: Patrick J. Carr.
Series: New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780814716625; 9780814716632
Subjects: Gang prevention -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Citizen participation.; Crime prevention -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Citizen participation.; Beltway (Chicago, Ill.) -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Welcome to Beltway; title: Getting things done: civic engagement in action; title: Looks like trouble: early signs of gangs and violence; title: Gang violence can happen here: the Hastings murders and their aftermath; title: Coming together: problem solving and the neighborhood watch; title: Conclusion: civic activism and the new parochialism; title: Appendix: getting in and out of Beltway.