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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

Elijah Anderson

Why do so many inner city young people turn to violence, and what is the street code of respect behind it?

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Author
Elijah Anderson

Why read it

  • You will see why, where police protection feels absent, people build their own rules for staying safe
  • You will understand why respect can work like a kind of currency where other chances have been denied
  • You will learn how families in the same poor neighborhood can live by very different values

Who it is for

  • A teacher or youth worker serving inner city teens
  • A policy maker thinking about violence and policing
  • A police officer assigned to a poor inner city beat

Contents

  1. CODE OF THE STREET
  2. Preface
  3. CODE OF THE STREET
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. ONE
  6. Decent and Street Families
  7. TWO
  8. Campaigning for Respect
  9. THREE
  10. Drugs, Violence, and Street Crime
  11. FOUR
  12. The Mating Game
  13. FIVE
  14. The Decent Daddy
  15. SIX
  16. The Black Inner-City Grandmother in Transition
  17. SEVEN
  18. John Turner’s Story
  19. CONCLUSION

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