Deliquency Areas: A Study of the Geographical Distribution of School Truants, Juvenile Delinquents, and Adult Offenders in Chicago
Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1929
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA]
AbeBooks seller since November 23, 1999
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 200.00
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Influential sociological study arguing that delinquency arises in deteriorating neighborhoods, not from individual psychology. In 1934, Shaw founded the still-extant Chicago Area Project to help local communities counter delinquency. Second of the publisher's Behavior Research Fund monographs. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; corners bumped & rubbed; price-clipped jacket tanned, chipped, rubbed, spine darkened; minor foxing to endsheets, some pencil marginalia noted & erased. Text believed clean; xxi, blank, 214 pages; maps, figures, tables - some folding Size: Octavo.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Deliquency Areas: A Study of the Geographical Distribution of School Truants, Juvenile Delinquents, and Adult Offenders in Chicago
- Author
- Shaw, Clifford R.; with Frederick M. Zorbaugh, Henry D. McKay, Leonard S. Cottrell
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Publication year
- 1929
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Americana, Mystery & Crime, Sociology
Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA]
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