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The frightening volume of crime and violence in late-twentieth-century America, featuring guns, drugs, and terrifying acts of bloodshed, is produced by street criminals. Their activities have popularized a word, recidivism, that, but for the fear street criminals have managed to spark, might have remained esoteric, just as graffiti might have remained but for the efforts of ghetto artists.
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© 1990 Anthony V. Bouza
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Bouza, A.V. (1990). Street Criminals and How They Got That Way. In: The Police Mystique. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6000-9_7
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