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street corner society  

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  • Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum, written by the sociologist William Foote Whyte, is considered a classic ethnographic study of an immigrant urban neighborhood, including some of its criminogenic aspects such as youth street gangs. Based on fieldwork conducted from 1937 to 1940, the book's first printing was in 1943 by the University of Chicago Press. [Source: Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America; Street Corner Society]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-NB87MK5N-4

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