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04005aam a2200529 i 4500 001 A3A1626C463711E5A53E10B0DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150819010042 008 140630s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014017280 020 $a 0814760805 (pb) 020 $a 9780814760802 (pb) 020 $a 0814760538 (hardback) 020 $a 9780814760536 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)876883341 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d RCJ $d UKMGB $d NTE $d PUL $d OCLCF $d IOM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ny 050 00 $a HV9106.A64 $b S56 2014 082 00 $a 364 $2 23 084 $a LAW000000 $a SOC026030 $a LAW000000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Singer, Simon I. 245 10 $a America's safest city : $b delinquency and modernity in suburbia / $c Simon I. Singer. 264 1 $a New York ; $b New York University Press, $c [2014] 300 $a xii, 305 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Safe cities and the struggle to be relationally modern. $t Confronting modernity and adolescence -- $t Relational modernity -- $t Beyond a street-corner view of delinquency -- $t The trouble with youth in America's safest city -- $t Suburbia's discontents -- $t Safe-city offending -- $t Safe cities and the struggle to be relationally modern. 650 0 $a Juvenile delinquents $z Amherst. $z Amherst. 650 0 $a Juvenile delinquency $z Amherst. $z Amherst. 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LAW / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Juvenile delinquency. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00985320 650 7 $a Juvenile delinquents. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00985367 651 7 $a New York (State) $z Amherst. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01207518 830 0 $a New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series. 941 $a 6 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724072502.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214015230.0 952 $l PMAX975 $d 20191119044611.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20160708010635.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20160506011008.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20160331011632.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A3A1626C463711E5A53E10B0DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IOMInitiate Another SILO Locator Search