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Book Reviews 383 link the macroforces to the local setting as comprehensively as Wilson did. For example, it is unclear how these housing estates were established; the history of the local Canadian neighborhoods is underdeveloped; and the data on how the shift in manufacturing-based economies specifically affected the communities that were living within these housing estates are sparse. To be fair, the authors limited their focus specifically to crime and (relative to Wilson) used a thinner methodology. The most developed and convincingly argued analysis is the chapter on poverty and violence against women. The data on the range of violence and harassment experienced by women in these poor housing communities viv- idly portray a sense of truly living “under siege.” The authors stress that vio- lence against women occurs in all socioeconomic strata and that this evi- dence should not be used to “pathologize” the poor. This is an important point, but the authors could go further in stressing the importance of the research for informing public policy approaches to the specific challenges that poor women face in confronting violence. However, readers will find, as they read the interesting and thoughtful discussions of the empirical data, that the women’s
Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work – SAGE
Published: Aug 1, 2005
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