Author: Marquez, Patricia C.
Title: The Street is My Home: Youth & Violence in Caracas
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1999). orig.cloth. 21x13cm, xi, 276 pp. Minor rubbing. Side cover-edge bumps. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The Streets of Caracas; Young People on the Streets of Caracas; Young People & Family Life; Guerra Contra el Hampa: Control Through Media, Law & the State; The Institutionalization of Violence; Stories in/on Style:Consumption, Language, & Violence; Conclusion.

Keywords: Latin American Sociology, Venezuela, Caracas, Youth, Violence, Street Children, Social Control, South America,