books.google.com - Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice)Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence; in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code...http://books.google.com/books/about/Code_of_the_Street_Decency_Violence_and.html?id=GlK6sXGrWtsC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCode of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City