Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness

Cambridge Studies in Criminology

by John Hagan

This field study features intensive personal interviews of more than four hundred young people who have left home and school and are living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver. The study examines why youth take to the streets, their struggles to survive there, their victimization and involvement in crime, their associations with other street youth, especially within "street families," their contacts with the police, and their efforts to rejoin conventional society. Major theories of youth crime are analyzed and reappraised in the context of a new social capital theory of crime.

Genres: Sociology

320 pages, Paperback

First published July 13, 1997

About the author

John L. Hagan (born 1946) is an American sociologist focusing on criminology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L....


Also publishes as John L. Hagan

Reviews

[Ambrose Leung · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this book many years ago, still think the authors are very skillful in explaining the problem using both stories and statistics.