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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword by Robert F. Meier -- Introduction -- 1. Street Ethnography -- 2. Distorted Families -- 3. Adolescent Survival -- 4. Sanctuaries -- 5. The Street -- 6. Aging -- 7. Ethnography and Anti-Crime Policy -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index.

Introduction -- Literature review -- Research design and methodology -- Learning the rules of prison culture -- Prison sexual culture -- The culture of sexual victimization -- Safe zones -- Sex and prison safety

"Most of society has given up on these girls. Dead End Kids shows us why this is a tragic mistake."--Elizabeth Mehren, national correspondent, Los Angeles Times Dead End Kids exposes both the depravity and the humanity in gang life through the eyes of a t

Early 20th-century Chicago witnessed an in-migration of foreign-born immigrants and Black American migrants fleeing slavery. As the Black Americans' population increased and dispersed across urban neighborhoods, Whites' anti-Black aggression and violence intensified. This article outlines the mechanisms that account for this discord through an examination of sociological texts. We propose that, first, contemporary racial discord has diachronic origins; second, 21st-century synchronic analysis of racial discord, absent of historical insight, cannot adequately account for a century of racial violence by attributing it to poverty and employment going overseas; and, third, a century of racism cannot be mitigated by replacing personnel in administrative agencies, retraining law enforcement personnel, and tightening police oversight. Mitigation of systemic law enforcement violence toward Black Americans must first recognize the contemporary effects of the history of law enforcement agencies' institutionalized racism documented by sociologists a century ago. A synchronic account of the origin of that racism lays deeply buried in the intellectual history of early 20th-century social science when decades of social researchers misinterpreted the influence of culture and biology on racial behavior.

In 1990, the Federal Bureau of Prisons implemented an instrument for on-site management accountability known as the institution character profile (ICP). The ICP was designed to assess the quality of work life for staffers, the working and living conditions for inmates, the stability of the institution within its community setting, and the nature of the professional relationship between federal agencies. This article describes the dynamics of the ICP as both an expression of the Bureau of Prisons' organizational culture that reaffirms core management principals and an effective conduit to disseminate programmatic and operational policies.