This study is based on three years of field work with ninety-nine active gang members and twenty-four family members. The book describes the attractiveness of gangs, the process of joining, their chaotic and loose organization, and their members' predominant activities--mostly hanging out, drinking, and using drugs--and their rather slapdash involvement in major property crime and drug traffic. Extensive interviews with family members provide groundbreaking insights into the gang members' lives, and the story is told largely in the gang members' own words.
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Based on three years of field work, this study describes all aspects of gang life. Told largely in the gang members' own words, it depicts their organization and members' predominant activities--hanging out, drinking, and using drugs--as well as involvement in major property crime and drug traffic.
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I'ma die for my colors, that's the first thing they say, I'ma die for my colors. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nongang activities, active gang members, nongang peers, street drug sales, legitimate social institutions, field ethnographer, studying gangs, most gang members, gang values, gang motivated, nongang members, gang membership, many gang members, individual gang members, female gang members, peace disturbance, other gang members, female gangs, one gang member, assaultive violence, drug customers, drug turfs, gang structure, dope house, gang formation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Compton Gangster, Hoover Crip, Gangster Disciple, Hoover Gangster Crip, Los Angeles, Crenshaw Gangster Blood, John Doe, West Side Mob, Laclede Town, Big Money, Lil Thug, North Side Crip, Inglewood Family Gangster Blood, Lady Tee, Lil Gene Mack, Street Rolling, North County Crip, Dough Boy, Percent Figure, Treetop Blood, Deuce Blood, New York City, Sanchez Jankowski, Swan Park, Hit Man New!
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I'ma die for my colors, that's the first thing they say, I'ma die for my colors. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nongang activities, active gang members, nongang peers, street drug sales, legitimate social institutions, field ethnographer, studying gangs, most gang members, gang values, gang motivated, nongang members, gang membership, many gang members, individual gang members, female gang members, peace disturbance, other gang members, female gangs, one gang member, assaultive violence, drug customers, drug turfs, gang structure, dope house, gang formation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Compton Gangster, Hoover Crip, Gangster Disciple, Hoover Gangster Crip, Los Angeles, Crenshaw Gangster Blood, John Doe, West Side Mob, Laclede Town, Big Money, Lil Thug, North Side Crip, Inglewood Family Gangster Blood, Lady Tee, Lil Gene Mack, Street Rolling, North County Crip, Dough Boy, Percent Figure, Treetop Blood, Deuce Blood, New York City, Sanchez Jankowski, Swan Park, Hit Man New!
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- Gangs in America by Ronald Huff in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- American Dream by Miller in Back Matter
- The Children of the Poor by Jacob August Riis in Back Matter
- Juvenile Justice by Robert W. Taylor in Back Matter
- Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) by Simon I. Singer in Front Matter
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- The Eurogang Paradox: Street Gangs and Youth Groups in the U.S. and Europe by Malcolm Klein on page 38, page 55, and page 112
- Winning the War Against Youth Gangs: A Guide for Teens, Families, and Communities by Valerie Wiener on page 76, page 94, and Back Matter
- Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) by Terence P. Thornberry in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Male Crime and Deviance: Exploring Its Causes, Dynamics and Nature by R. Barri Flowers on page 273, and Back Matter
- What Works in Corrections: Reducing the Criminal Activities of Offenders and Deliquents (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) by Doris Layton MacKenzie in Front Matter
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