Street Justice: Retaliation in the Criminal Underworld (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) - Hardcover

Jacobs, Bruce A.; Wright, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521852781 ISBN 13: 9780521852784

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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 United States, it has received scant attention from criminologists. As a result, the structure, process, and forms of retaliation in the real world setting of urban America remain poorly understood. Street Justice: Retaliation in the Criminal World, first published in 2006, explores the face of modern day retaliation from the perspective of currently active criminals who have experienced it first hand, as offenders, victims, or both.

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Book Description

Street criminals live in a dangerous world, but they cannot rely on the criminal justice system to protect them from predation by fellow lawbreakers; they often use retaliation as a mechanism for deterring and responding to victimization. This 2006 book explores retaliation from the perspective of those who have experienced it first hand.

About the Author

Bruce Jacobs is the author of two previous books, Dealing Crack and Robbing Drug Dealers, as well as the author or co-author of approximately 20 journal articles and book chapters. He is also the editor of Investigating Deviance and the recipient of competitive grant funding from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521852781
• ISBN 13: 9780521852784
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 168