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The code of the streets is actually a cultural adaptation to a profound lack of faith in the police and the judicial system. ... Thus the street code emerges where the influence of the police ends ...
The Code of the Streets. A longer version of this classic essay first appeared in The Atlantic. This version is published with the permission of the author. by Elijah Anderson, professor at Yale University. Of all the problems besetting the poor inner-city Black community, none is more pressing than that of interpersonal violence and aggression.
- 1 General Findings About The Code of The Street
- 2 Code and Family
- 3 Code as A Strategy to Gain Safety
- 4 Code and Identity
Some scholars tried to assess the quantitative generalizability of the code to explain youth violence in various contexts. Using the National Youth Survey (NYS), a U.S. annual survey of youths aged 11–17 years, a panel survey of self-reported delinquent behavior conducted by the Behavioral Research Institute, Brezina et al. (2004), analyzed the dat...
Stewart et al. (2006) attempted to explain violent behavior among African American youths in distressed neighborhoods relying on Anderson’s thesis. They combined both structural characteristics, like cultural family and racial discriminatory factors to comprehend the adaptation of violent behavior and the code of street. Therefore, they used data f...
In his work, Anderson argued that the adoption of the street code increases safety and prevents future victimization in distressed contexts. According to the street code, adolescents show violent behavior not only to gain respect but to deter others to prevent future victimization. Stewart et al. (2006) aimed to understand the relationship between ...
Recently research on identity, culture and youth violence in inner-city neighborhoods has helped to understand how the street code influences the identity and behavior of youth. Holligan (2015) interviewed 37 young male offenders (16–18 years old) about past experiences. Narratives of the offenders depict the presence of the code of the street, art...
- Sebastian Kurtenbach, Abdul Rauf
- 2019
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Winner of the Komarovsky Book Award, this incisive book examines the code as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope. An individual’s safety and sense of worth are determined by the respect he commands in public—a deference frequently based on an ...
However, little empirical attention has been given to the effect of neighborhood street culture norms on African American adolescent violence and the possibility of its moderating effect on individual-level street code values. In the current study, we drew on Elijah Anderson’s (1999) code of the street perspective to address these issues ...
- Eric A. Stewart, Ronald L. Simons
- 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2010.00196.x
- 2010
- 2010/05
Watch the classic hip-hop video of Gang Starr's Code Of The Streets, a song that reflects the harsh realities and struggles of urban life. This is one of the most influential tracks from the ...
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May 4, 2013 · The Code of the Streets, a term popularized by the hip-hop duo Gang Starr and the sociologist Elijah Anderson, is the code of men who have come to feel that they have nothing to lose. Much of the ...
