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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1st Edition) by Elijah Anderson, Frank Arthur Worsley Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-393-04023-2 / 0393040232 ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04023-4 / 9780393040234 Where the rule of law does not apply, survival depends on intimate knowledge of this powerful, inflexible etiquette that colors every human transaction. Inner-city black America often seems to be defined by random, senseless street violence. In fact, although violence is a salient feature of inn |