![]() | Clean Streets: Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism Subjects: Gang prevention -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Citizen participation; Crime prevention -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Citizen participation; Beltway (Chicago Ill.) -- Social conditions; 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 Patrick J. : Patrick J. Carr is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. |
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