Social inequality in Urban Communities
Discuss how crime and its control in urban communities reflects and reinforces social inequality.
Use the references provided below.
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Wasserman, J. A. & Clair, J. M. (2011). Housing Patterns of Homeless People: The Ecology of the Street in the Era of Urban Renewal. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 40(1), 71-101.
