Street Justice: Retaliation in the Criminal Underworld
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Criminology Series)
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Book Overview
Street criminals live in a dangerous world, but they cannot realistically rely on the criminal justice system to protect them from predation by fellow lawbreakers; they are on their own when it comes to dealing with crimes perpetrated against them and often use retaliation as a mechanism for deterring and responding to victimization. Although retaliation lies at the heart of much of the violence that plagues many inner-city neighborhoods across the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521617987
ISBN13:9780521617987
Release Date:May 2006
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:168 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
The material presented by Jacobs and Wright makes law-abiding, middle-class persons realize there is an entirely different world where disgruntled criminals take revenge in ways that only Quentin Tarantino could imagine. There are few ethnographic works that can match the fascinating stories of retaliatory violence contained within "Street Justice."
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