Rural crime and poverty
Subtitle: violence, drugs, and other issues
By: by Jean Otto Ford.
Series: Youth in rural North America
Publisher: Mason Crest Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Broomall, Pa
Language: eng
Subjects: Rural youth -- United States -- Juvenile literature.; Poor youth -- United States -- Juvenile literature.; Rural youth -- Drug use -- United States -- Juvenile literature.; Juvenile delinquency -- United States -- Juvenile literature.; Rural crimes -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: Defining the differences : diversity among poor, rural youth; value: Dealing desperation : drugs and poverty and rural youth; value: Deceptive dangers : marijuana, alcohol, and tobacco use; value: Doomed daring : rural poverty and nonviolent crime; value: Deadly dysfunction : rural poverty and violence.