{"product_id":"9780198257516","title":"Tarnished Vision: Crime and Conflict in the Inner City","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnce a group of young people (reformed street robbers) had a vision. To transform their poor divided community. But the vision was tarnished by harsh reality, violent feuds and factional strife, corrupt and ineffective leaders, and youths involved in networks of criminality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLTarnished Vision is the story of the rise and fall of a utopian community project told against a background of crime and delinquency in a troubled neighbourhood. This vivid and authentic account of life in 'Satellite City' is set in the 1980s, a decade when the promises of the enterprise culture failed to deliver, and the conditions were created for a generation hooked on crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTarnished Vision depicts the 1980s inner city cycle of social tragedy followed by inept societal response, followed by social tragedy. But this is not only a story for the 1980s. The message is that programmes to save the inner cities, however well-resoourced, cannot afford to ignore the destructive frustrations of urban male youths wh are involved in crime. Community action programmes can be no more than window dressing to camouflage these realities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007244321008,"sku":"9780198257516","price":100.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780198257516_p0.jpg?v=1763666381","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780198257516","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}