City of Disorder
, by Vitale, AlexNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780814788189 | 0814788181
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/1/2009
New York in the 1990s faced a "quality of life" crisis of homelessness and public disorder. In response, frustrated local residents embraced neoconservative ideas that pledged to restore order through aggressive policing and punitive social policies, shifting the focus of government from improving the lives of the needy to protecting the welfare of the middle and upper classes.