Americaas Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia by Singer, Simon I.
Americaas Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia by Singer, Simon I.

Americaas Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia

Winner of the American Society of Criminology 2015 Michael J. Hindelang Book Award for the Most Outstanding...
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Author: Simon I. Singer
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Americaas Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia by Singer, Simon I.

Americaas Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia

$186.28
Americaas Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia by Singer, Simon I.

Americaas Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia

$186.28
Author: Simon I. Singer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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




Author: Simon I. Singer
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 10/10/2014
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.15h x 6.05w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780814760802


Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/07/2014 pg. 18
Choice 05/01/2015 pg. 1596

About the Author
Simon I. Singer is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. Previously, he was Professor of Sociology at the University of Buffalo, SUNY. He is the author of Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform (1996), winner of the American Sociological Association's 1999 Distinguished Scholar Award in Crime, Law and Deviance.
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