Review of Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

For this work I decided to read "Street Code: a decent, violent and moral life in downtown", Elijah Anderson. This book is about how people in the city center live and live using street codes to survive. The street code is basically the morality and values ​​that these people have. In most cases, this is how they act to survive. While continuing this review, I will discuss the points and arguments Anderson explained in the book.

Street Code: A decent, violent and urban moral life has helped me to understand the world I have never tried, because I judge that the cost is too high. After reading the code of the city: Although I do not like to take the slums' bus back home, even if I live a decent, violent and moral life in the city center, I hate people I've seen There is none. Street code: neat, violent and urban heart moral life is a tough life, at first glance people are hard people, how is this

The city center of the United States is often shaped as a place of violent violence, but in reality the violence in the city center is regulated by informal but famous road law. This unwritten rule, mainly based on personal respect, is a powerful and universal form of etiquette that decides how people learn to negotiate public places. Elijah Anderson's ingenious book depicts the code and views it as a lack of work for payment of living wages, stigma of race, rampant use of drugs, lack of alienation and hope.

How does the street code affect the daily lives of people living there? Do you define positive and negative role models in the downtown area? Street code is designed to understand and explain violence in the city center and related problems. We will manage rules that match other areas of the city center. Personal respect is what all of us are anxious about. The struggle as a way of maintaining respect is the characteristic of several subcultures in the United States. Impact of daily life will increase the risk of personal safety, especially for young men. The increase in conflict between the police and the youth contributes to the policeman's racial profiling.

At Eliya Anderson's "Street Code" he claims that the high proportion of violence among urban centers is due to the "street code". He pointed out that this Code is a set of "informal rules governing interpersonal public actions" that encourages the use of violence to defend honor and protect reputation. Like conflicting subcultures of Cloward and Ohlin and violent subcultures of Wolfgang and Ferruti, Anderson believes that crime will occur in certain communities to maintain its status and respect. But this modern theory has been updated when Anderson includes family diversity in a culture supporting violence. This theory continues to prove that not everyone in the violent environment adheres to the same values ​​but it will lead to the acceptance of violent values ​​and attitudes by residents of the city center of Germantown Avenue The specific process can not be clarified.