Code of the Street
Subtitle: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780393320787
First sentence: ALMOST everyone residing in poor inner-city neighborhoods is struggling financially and therefore feels a certain distance from the rest of America, but there are degrees of alienation, captured by the terms "decent" and "street" or "ghetto" suggesting social types.