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Simon I. Singer, America’s Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia

New York: New York University Press, 2014. 305 pp. $26.00. ISBN: 978-0814760802

Author: Joachim J. Savelsberg

Published in: Society | Issue 4/2015

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America’s Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia is an impressive book. It adds an inspiring theoretical idea to the criminological literature: the importance of what the author calls “relational modernity” for the maturation of recent and current generations of young Americans. It examines, in a rich empirical analysis, consequences of relational modernity for crime and delinquency, supporting the idea with impressive and original qualitative and statistical data. And it directs the scholarly lens at the suburb, a geographic area that has begun to house the majority of Americans but that has been vastly disregarded by criminological researchers. …

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Title: Simon I. Singer, America’s Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia
New York: New York University Press, 2014. 305 pp. $26.00. ISBN: 978-0814760802
Author: Joachim J. Savelsberg
Publication date: 01-08-2015
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Society / Issue 4/2015
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-015-9917-z

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