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Wounded city : violent turf wars in a Chicago barrio / Robert Vargas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vargas, Robert, 1985- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence--Illinois--Chicago.
- Violence.
- Inner cities--Illinois--Chicago.
- Inner cities.
- Gangs--Illinois--Chicago.
- Gangs.
- Ethnic neighborhoods--Illinois--Chicago.
- Ethnic neighborhoods.
- Police-community relations--Illinois--Chicago.
- Police-community relations.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 264 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Through an ethnographic case study of Chicago's Little Village, Wounded City demonstrates how competition for political power and state resources undermined efforts to reduce gang violence. Robert Vargas argues that the state, through different patterns of governance, can contribute to distrust and division among community members.
- Contents:
- Battles for Political Turf in Little Village
- Burbs and Violent Blocks
- Transforming Violent Streets on the West Side
- Silence and the Art of Arson
- Locking Up Social Order
- Toward a Relational Understanding of Urban Violence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780190245917
- 9780190245900
- 0190245905
- 0190245913
- OCLC:
- 922220290
- Publisher Number:
- 99972018316
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