Under Siege: Poverty and Crime in a Public Housing Community
ISBN-13:
9780739105931
ISBN-10:
0739105930
Author:
Shahid Alvi, Martin D. Schwartz, Walter S. DeKeseredy, Andreas E. Tomaszewski
Publication date:
2003
Publisher:
Lexington Books
Format:
Hardcover
200 pages
Category:
Poverty
,
Social Sciences
,
Criminology
,
Urban
,
Sociology
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ISBN-13:
9780739105931
ISBN-10:
0739105930
Author:
Shahid Alvi, Martin D. Schwartz, Walter S. DeKeseredy, Andreas E. Tomaszewski
Publication date:
2003
Publisher:
Lexington Books
Format:
Hardcover
200 pages
Category:
Poverty
,
Social Sciences
,
Criminology
,
Urban
,
Sociology
Summary
Under Siege: Poverty and Crime in a Public Housing Community (ISBN-13: 9780739105931 and ISBN-10: 0739105930), written by authors
Shahid Alvi, Martin D. Schwartz, Walter S. DeKeseredy, Andreas E. Tomaszewski, was published by Lexington Books in 2003.
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Under Siege is one of the first books of its kind. It vividly describes the devastating consequences of living in a public housing community damaged by the disappearance of manufacturing jobs, government cutbacks, and other alarming structural transformations that currently plague the United States and Canada. Walter DeKeseredy and his colleagues build on the rich theoretical perspectives developed by feminist scholars―as well as those constructed by Jock Young, Robert Sampson, and William Julius Wilson―as they present both the qualitative and quantitative results of a case study of six public housing estates located in an impoverished urban area. This groundbreaking book provides an in-depth analysis of predatory crime victimization, intimate partner victimization, public racial and sexual harassment, and the relationship of all these harms to the residents' perceptions of their neighborhood social disorganization/collective efficacy. Under Siege is uniquely valuable both for its rich theoretical basis and for its transparent presentation of the authors' research methodology. It is a thought-provoking sociological contribution that offers progressive strategies for ameliorating both poverty and crime in North American public housing complexes.
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