Post-Ghetto: Volume 5

Is South Los Angeles on the mend? How is it combating the blight of crime, gang violence, high unemployment, and dire poverty? In provocative essays, the contributing authors to "Post-Ghetto" address these questions by pointing out robust signs of hope for the area's residents--an increase in corporate retail investment, a decrease in homicides, a proliferation of nonprofit service providers, a paradigm shift in violence- and gang-prevention programs,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520289080
• ISBN13: 9780520289086
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"