The title of an article can reveal bits of information that disclose what the article is about. The title of this article is specific enough to inform the reader on the subject of the article, but it leaves out an important factor about the subjects of the research. While the title says it is about “street families,” it does not tell the reader that the article is about homeless children. The research was done on children, but the

To conclude the introduction, the last paragraph describes what types of relationships they are looking for between homeless youth and street groups and then they add the hypothesis at the end. This paragraph flows well but the hypothesis seems out of place. The hypotheses, which is stated “the differences between, and consequences of, fictive street family and other street group relationships with qualitative and quantitative data gathered from homeless youth in two Canadian cities” is a structured sentence that comes after several casual sentences (McCarthy et al. 832). The sentence sticks out and is an awkward ending to a paragraph.

The introduction prefaces the article with pertinent information that is useful to the reader. The authors began their introduction with the problem of sociological theories and how they fail to credit the relationship between childhood relationships. The authors feel that these relationships deter children from crime better than relationships between children and families. The researchers feel this is important because it can redirect how youth crime is addressed. To support their ideas, they include the ideas of “W. F. Whyte’s classic apposition of ‘college’ and ‘corner’ boys and his enduring argument that friends can lead youth away from, as well as toward, crime and disrepute” (McCarthy et al. 831). The authors also cited many other people in the introduction. Before the introduction the authors listed key words from the article: “homeless youth, so

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