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<p> Devine and Write, like George Bernard Shaw, consider poverty to be the greatest of evils and the worst of crimes. In this book they argue that most of America's social problems, including crime, are rational adaptations to the absence of economic prospects... [T]his readable book... provides a useful review of the burgeoning literature on American poverty and the urban underclass. <p> --Hilary Silver, Social Forces <p> [A] first rate contribution to the ongoing debate over the issue of persistent poverty in the United States... written in non-technical language... accessible to a general readership. <p> --Elijah Anderson, professor of sociology, University of Pennsylvania

[A] first rate contribution to the ongoing debate over the issue of persistent poverty in the United States...written in non-technical language...accessible to a general readership.

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