The 'code of the street' and the generation of street violence in the uk

European Journal of Criminology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-31

  Brookman, Fiona ^a   Bennett, Trevor ^a   Hochstetler, Andy ^b   Copes, Heith ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

code of the street; street culture; street violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650766056     PISSN: 14773708     EISSN: 17412609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1477370810382259     Document Type: Article

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