Overview

Full Product Details

9780739105931

Table of Contents

Reviews

This book exposes the raw reality of the impact of poverty and crime on the lives of Canada s urban poor. It is about time that this book was written and that this reality was exposed.--Ron Hinch

Under Siege will become the book that researchers and housing advocates, as well as advocates for battered women, will have to cite. It is a groundbreaking study.--Claire Renzetti

This book exposes the raw reality of the impact of poverty and crime on the lives of Canada's urban poor. It is about time that this book was written and that this reality was exposed. -- Ron Hinch, School of Justice Studies, University of Ontario Institute of Technology This study is at the same time theoretically sophisticated and grounded in meticulous research. It presents a harrowing account of social exclusion in a Canadian public housing community which will cause the reader to substantially re-evaluate conventional wisdoms with regards to Canadian and U.S. differences in crime and poverty. -- Jock Young, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York Under Siege will become the book that researchers and housing advocates, as well as advocates for battered women, will have to cite. It is a groundbreaking study. -- Claire Renzetti, St. Joseph's University

Author Information

Walter S. DeKeseredy is Professor of Sociology at Ohio University and Chair of the American Society of Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology. Shahid Alvi is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Criminal Justice Program at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Martin D. Schwartz is Professor of Sociology and Presidential Research Scholar at Ohio University. E. Andreas Tomaszewski is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available