{"product_id":"9780393320787","title":"Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City","description":"Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice)\u003cbr\u003eInner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules—based largely on an individual's ability to command respect—is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060487012592,"sku":"9780393320787","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393320787_p0.jpg?v=1763696991","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393320787","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}