Introduction
Criminal activities among the youth and women are high in areas with low incomes like slums and poverty-stricken populations. A Rage in Harlem (1957), by Chester and ‘’The Corner’ by Simon and Burns focus on the criminal activities taking place in inner cities. A Rage in Harlem focuses on sexual and violence among the youth in the City of Harlem where majority of its population is black who live in congested dwellings, feeding on each other’s throats. This shows how poverty is prevalent in among the blacks living in Harlem while the whites are living in mansions on a ...
