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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh Publisher Comments In this "riveting"(The New York Times) work of nonfiction, a sociologist infiltrates the world of Chicago's crack-dealing gangs First presented in Freakonomics, the story of a young sociologist who embedded himself in Chicago's most notorious gang and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Day by Luis J Rodriguez Publisher Comments By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as drugs, murder, suicide, and senseless acts... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Days by Luis Rodriguez Publisher Comments This award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member is now updated with a new Introduction and reading group guide.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur Publisher Comments Written in solitary confinement, the author's memoir of 16 years as a gangbanger in Los Angeles makes palpable the despair and decay of America's inner cities and gives eloquent voice to one aspect of the black ghetto experience.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wallbangin': Graffiti and Gangs in L.A. by Susan A Phillips Publisher Comments Graffiti is as ubiquitous as telephone poles in America's cities; it is as old as the earliest civilizations. The most public medium in the country today, graffiti can signal territory, love, or liberation. Ironically, graffiti is understood by only a... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing by Luis J. Rodriguez Publisher Comments Hundreds of thousands of readers came to know Luis J. RodrÍguez through his fearless classic, Always Running, which chronicled his early life as a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles. The long awaited... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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Street Wars: Gangs and the Future of Violence by Tom Hayden Publisher Comments A gripping and honest account of the culture of gangs, Street Wars is essential reading for anyone concerned about cities, violence, and the future of urban youth. Though never officially acknowledged, over 25,000 young people have died in America's gang... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gang Intelligence Manual: Identifying and Understanding Modern-Day Violent Gangs in the United States by Bill Valentine Publisher Comments Marauding gangs have become a fact of life in the U.S., but where did these violent groups come from, and why are they so appealing to so many youths today? This comprehensive guide provides answers to these questions and more. It will open your eyes to... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gangs: An International Approach by Sean Grennan Publisher Comments This book is for undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Organized Crime, Gangs in Society, and Juvenile Delinquency, or any other course related to organized crime or gangs, in departments of Criminal Justice, Criminology, Sociology, and Psychology... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $26.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gangs in Garden City: How Immigration, Segregation, and Youth Violence Are Changing America's Suburbs by Sarah Garland Publisher Comments Gangs in Garden City examines how two gangs—Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street—have ventured beyond our urban centers and into Americas most exclusive suburbs. Journalist Sarah Garland takes us into the lives of the residents of Hempstead, Long... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Deadly Consequences by Debo Prothrow Stith Publisher Comments With an important introduction by C. Everett Koop and passionate endorsements from Senator Edward M. Kennedy and public officials from every major city in the U.S., this authoritative and timely guide calls for the diagnosis and treatment of urban... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture (Globalization and Community) by John M Hagedorn Publisher Comments “Street gangs mirror the inhuman ambitions and greed of society’s trendsetters and deities even as they fight to the death over scraps from the table of the international drug trade. But John Hagedorn, characteristically, also finds... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture (08 Edition) by John M. Hagedorn Publisher Comments For the more than a billion people who now live in urban slums, gangs are ubiquitous features of daily life. Though still most closely associated with American cities, gangs are an entrenched, worldwide phenomenon that play a significant role in a wide... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California by James Diego Vigil Publisher Comments Within the Mexican American barrios of Los Angeles, gang activity, including crime and violent acts, has grown and flourished. In the past, community leaders and law enforcement officials have approached the problem, not as something that needs to be... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gang War/The Inside Story of the Manches by Peter Walsh Publisher Comments Traces the inside story of armed gang warfare in Manchester since the 1980s. It reveals how top villans took over the drug trade and nightclub security.... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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War of the Bloods in My Veins: A Street Soldier's March Toward Redemption by Dashaun Morris Publisher Comments By turns harrowing, moving, and ultimately redemptive, this is a war story -- a war that rages out of control on the streets of the United States, claiming the lives of our loved ones and neighbors. In this memoir, complete with child soldiers... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangs by Gini Sikes Publisher Comments Dismissed by the police as mere adjuncts to or gofers for male gangs, girl gang-bangers are in fact often as emotionally closed off and dangerous as their male counterparts. In "8 Ball Chicks", veteran journalist Gini Sikes spends a year in the ghettos... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Do or Die by Leon Bing Publisher Comments One Camp Kilpatrick As you travel the northbound 101 out of Los Angeles heading toward Malibu, you leave a vista of faded bungalows and crumbling apartment houses. Youdrive past Koreatown, Sunset Boulevard, and the Hollywood Bowl, past Studio City... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gang as an American Enterprise by Felix M Padilla Publisher Comments Padilla writes with earnestness and concern ... the author never exploits or sensationalizes the kids he has written about ... this is vastly preferable to other recent titles on this timely subject.- Publisher's Weekly This is the most thorough look at... (read more) List Price $28.25 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost Boyz by Justin Rollins Publisher Comments At age 14, author Justin Rollins went from being a bullied child to the leader of The Warriorz, a group of London street kids involved in graffiti tagging and other crimes, including a series of violent encounters. Eventually given a substantial... (read more) List Price $31.96 Your price: $28.36 Google eBooks - Electronic
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