America S Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia: 3 (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law) - Hardcover

Singer, Simon I.

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ISBN 10: 0814760538 ISBN 13: 9780814760536

Verlag: NYU Press, 2014

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"Using a wealth of ethnographic research and detailed data, noted juvenile justice scholar Singer details how the occurrence of delinquency is effected and affected by where people live. . . . This volume is packed with solid, illuminating findings."-Choice "[...] Singer has a very different notion of relationality. He highlights the importance of complex relationships for supporting young people and shepherding them through the risky period of adolescence."-American Journal of Sociology "Traditional delinquency theory is steeped inthe world of impoverished inner cities and tough street corners. Yet today thesprawling suburbs are the setting for millions of adolescents struggling tomake their way in a complex and technologically advanced world.Even in America's `safest' suburbanenclaves-typically showered with wealth and social services-the landscape ischallenging and does not conform to popular stereotypes. Combining a rich setof original observations, detailed personal interviews, and surveys, Singershows that while violent crime is rare, many a suburban teen is faltering. Delinquency and drug use are rampant andsuicide tears at the social fabric. Simon Singer's nuanced data and conceptualizationof relational modernity provide a fresh perspective on the sources ofdelinquency in contemporary society."-Robert J. Sampson,author of Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect "America's Safest City is an impressive book. It adds an inspiring theoretical idea to the criminological literature....The material is eminently well organized, and the manuscript reads exceedingly well. This is one of those rare academic books which is hard to put down before reaching the end."-Society "No one should write about delinquency, juvenile justice, or suburban youth for that matter, without referencing this book! Singer takes on a personal journey into America's Safest City-one that is not far removed from his earlier award winning book, Recriminalizing Delinquency. This time he provides a fascinating look into the suburbanized lives of adolescents, and how they are able to avoid the criminality of less affluent, inner-city youth. But Singer has accomplished even more by drawing on a relationally modern theory of offending and its control, and in so doing he has moved criminology beyond its early 20th-century inner-city focus into today's contemporary world of safe city youth."-John Hagan,author of Who Are The Criminals? and Structural Criminology "This book presents a thought-provoking and veryreadable account of why some (mostly affluent suburban) cities are relativelysafe, while other (mostly impoverished inner) cities are not. Singer describeshow adolescents in safe cities benefit from many sources of social support thathelp them to make a successful transition into young adulthood."-David P. Farrington,author of of Saving Children from a Life of Crime: Early Risk Factors and Effective Intervention

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Winner of the American Society of Criminology 2015 Michael J. Hindelang Book Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology Since the mid-1990s, the fast-growing suburb of Amherst, NY has been voted by numerous publications as one of the safest places to live in America. Yet, like many of America's seemingly idyllic suburbs, Amherst is by no means without crime-especially when it comes to adolescents. In America's Safest City, noted juvenile justice scholar Simon I. Singer uses the types of delinquency seen in Amherst as a case study illuminating the roots of juvenile offending and deviance in modern society. If we are to understand delinquency, Singer argues, we must understand it not just in impoverished areas, but in affluent ones as well.Drawing on ethnographic work, interviews with troubled youth, parents and service providers, and extensive surveys of teenage residents in Amherst, the book illustrates how a suburban environment is able to provide its youth with opportunities to avoid frequent delinquencies. Singer compares the most delinquent teens he surveys with the least delinquent, analyzing the circumstances that did or did not lead them to deviance and the ways in which they confront their personal difficulties, societal discontents, and serious troubles. Adolescents, parents, teachers, coaches and officials, he concludes, are able in this suburban setting to recognize teens' need for ongoing sources of trust, empathy, and identity in a multitude of social settings, allowing them to become what Singer terms `relationally modern' individuals better equipped to deal with the trials and tribulations of modern life. A unique and comprehensive study, America's Safest City is a major new addition to scholarship on juveniles and crime in America. Crime, Law and Social Change's special issue on America's Safest City

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• Verlag: NYU Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0814760538
• ISBN 13: 9780814760536
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 322