Gangs
ISBN: 9780888999788 | 088899978X
Format: Trade PaperPublisher: Groundwood Books
Pub. Date: 3/1/2012
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Street gangs have exploded in popularity worldwide. Tattoos, baggy pants, tagging, gangsta style clothes -- this unspoken threat is always just around the corner in most of the world's major cities. In search of a sense of identity and belonging that their world has denied them, young people are pushed into gangs by a witch's brew of violence, guns, drugs, racism, poverty, families under pressure, and ever-widening slums.Gangsexposes the roots of the problem, from thebidonvillesof France to thefavelasof Brazil. It offers a startling analysis of... MORE
| Gangs Are Everywhere | p. 7 |
| Gangs and Poverty | p. 26 |
| The Underground Economy | p. 41 |
| Gangs and Their Communities | p. 56 |
| Gang Appeal | p. 68 |
| The Politics of Gangs | p. 80 |
| The Assault on Youth | p. 93 |
| A Future with Gangs | p. 108 |
| Gang Vocabulary | p. 126 |
| Gangs Timeline | p. 127 |
| Notes | p. 129 |
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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