Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio

by Robert Vargas

Book Overview

In 2009, Chicago spent millions of dollars to create programs to prevent gang violence in some of its most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Yet in spite of the programs, violence has grown worse in some of the very neighborhoods that the violence prevention programs were intented to help. While public officials and social scientists often attribute the violence - and the failure of the programs - to a lack of community in poor neighborhoods, closer study...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190245913
• ISBN13: 9780190245917
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"