Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
By David M. Kennedy.
Description
Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some neighborhoods in America, one out of every two hundred young black men is shot to death every year, and few initiatives of government and law enforcement have made much difference. But when David Kennedy, a self-taught and then-unknown criminologist, engineered the "Boston Miracle" in the mid-1990s, he pointed the way toward what few had imagined: a solution.Don't Shoot tells the story of Kennedy's long journey. Riding with beat ...
ISBN(s)
1608192644, 9781608192649
