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social science subjects > sociology > race, ethnicity and migration > community and urban issues > code of the street
... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > street crime in America > urban life/criminology theory > code of the street

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code of the street  

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  • The “code of the street” represents modern criminology's influential subcultural statement on how life in inner-city America gives rise to increased levels of crime and deviance, particularly violence. Rooted in Elijah Anderson's ethnographic account of life in inner-city Philadelphia, the code is depicted as a reaction to an environment plagued by profound feelings of despair. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Deviance; Code of the Street]

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