TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carr,Patrick J.
TI  - Clean Streets: Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism 
T2  - New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
SN  - 9780814716632
AV  - HV6439.U7 C349 2005eb
U1  - 364.4/3/0977311 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Crime prevention
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Chicago
KW  - Citizen participation
KW  - Gang prevention
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Offers
KW  - communitys
KW  - confront
KW  - crime
KW  - homes
KW  - important
KW  - keep
KW  - safe
KW  - story
KW  - struggle
KW  - their
N1  - restricted access
N2  - With the close proximity of gangs and the easy access to drugs, keeping urban neighborhoods safe from crime has long been a central concern for residents. In Clean Streets, Patrick Carr draws on five years of research in a white, working-class community on Chicago's South side to see how they tried to keep their streets safe. Carr details the singular event for this community and the resulting rise of community activism: the shootings of two local teenage girls outside of an elementary school by area gang members. As in many communities struck by similar violence, the shootings led to profound changes in the community's relationship to crime prevention. Notably, their civic activism has proved successful and, years after the shooting, community involvement remains strong.Carr mines this story of an awakened neighborhood for unique insights, contributing a new perspective to the national debate on community policing, civic activism, and the nature of social control. Clean Streets offers an important story of one community's struggle to confront crime and to keep their homes safe. Their actions can be seen as a model for how other communities can face up to similarly difficult problems
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814790038
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814790038/original
ER  -