Code Of The Street Summary

Code of the Street by Elijah Anderson, highlights the structural importance and function of the “code of the street” in Philadelphia’s predominately black, inner-city communities. Anderson’s book extracts the matters plaguing inner-city residents, including poverty, the lack of education, diminishing job opportunities, teenage pregnancy, gang activity, and drugs. The code of the street is used by these inner-city residents as a defense mechanism to adapt to the different criminal activities surrounding their neighborhoods. Some of these criminal activities contaminating the communities include gang activity, drug usage and dealing, prostitution, firearm possession, robberies, assaults, vandalism, among many others.
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