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Gangs Paperback - 2012

by Richard Swift; Jane Springer (Editor)


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A Booklist Editors' Choice and a Society of School Librarians International (SSLI) Honor Book

Street gangs have exploded worldwide. Tattoos, baggy pants, tagging, gangsta style, the unspoken threat -- it's all just around the corner in most of the world's major cities. From the streets of Los Angeles to the shantytowns of Cape Town, hundreds of thousands of "at risk" youth are deciding whether they should join their local gang.

Violence, guns, the drug trade, racism, poverty, families under pressure and ever-widening slums all provide a witch's brew in which the youth gang tempts young males and females with a sense of identity and belonging that their world has denied them.

Gangs exposes the roots of the problem as it moves from the banlieues of France to the favelas of Brazil. It offers a startling analysis of the complicity of the official adult world and some controversial ideas for reforms that might just undermine the appeal of gang life.

For many of the world's young -- especially those who are poor -- joining a gang is a real career choice. It is a choice that can be as deadly for young gangsters as for their victims. Richard Swift shows us that we fail to understand gangs at our peril.

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  • Title Gangs
  • Author Richard Swift; Jane Springer (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Trade Pape
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Groundwood Books, Toronto, 0ntario
  • Date 2012-03
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780888999788 / 088899978X
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.9 x 4.9 x 0.4 in (17.53 x 12.45 x 1.02 cm)
  • Reading level 1300
  • Library of Congress subjects Gangs, Crime prevention
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.106

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Citations

  • Booklist, 05/01/2011, Page 81
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2011, Page 414
  • School Library Journal, 06/01/2011, Page 0

About the author

Richard Swift is an internationally regarded journalist and former editor of New Internationalist magazine. He has done stories from many parts of the world on issues as varied as famine and the plight of farmers, slums, the prison system and struggles for national liberation. Swift is author of The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy and Trigger Issues: Mosquito, and editor of Ties That Bind: Canada and the Third World. He has also worked as a radio journalist. He lives in Toronto.
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