TY - BOOK AU - Daly,John Charles AU - Duncan,Sydney ED - American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. TI - The Urban crisis: can grass-roots groups succeed where government has failed? SN - 0844722235 (pbk.) AV - HT123 .U7435 U1 - 307.7'6'0973 PY - 1981/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - AEI KW - Urban policy N2 - This pamphlet contains the edited transcript of one of a series of AEI forums. A recent Twentieth Century Fund task force stressed that although males between the ages of thirteen and twenty constitute only 9 percent of the total population, they account for more than half of all property crime arrests and for more than 33 percent of offenses involving violence.The purpose of this forum therefore, is to examine a few instances of success amid all the failure: local groups and individuals who have solved many of the problems that have defied solution by large social service institutions. ER -