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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard Swift , Jane SpringerPublisher: Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada Imprint: Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada Edition: First Trade Paper Edition Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 17.70cm Weight: 0.127kg ISBN: 9780888999788ISBN 10: 088899978 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 21 April 2011 Recommended Age: From 14 years Audience: Young adult , Children/juvenile , Teenage / Young adult , Children / Juvenile Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsThe authors [of the Groundwork Guides ] express strong viewpoints that are sure to jolt readers into ready agreement or opposition. <br>-- School Library Journal A Booklist Editors' Choice - Book for Youth, 2012 With well-documented references, a sharp wit, and a passionate commitment ... this will grab teens, and adults, too, with its compelling arguments about why kids join gangs and what happens when greed, poverty, and injustice intersect. -- Booklist, starred review . ..an accessible, readable, and fascinating book. -- CM Magazine ... informative and fast-paced ... --Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children Author InformationRichard 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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