Mark S Fleisher

Dead End Kids

Gang Girls and the Boys They Know

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Produktbeschreibung

Mark Fleisher exposes the depravity and humanity in gang life as seen through the eyes of a teen-aged girl named Cara. Dead End Kids provides a firsthand account of Cara's life as a member of a Kansas City gang, the Fremont Hustlers. Drugs and guns, shootings and assaults, boyfriends and pregnancies, ratty apartments, broken-down cars, minimum-wage jobs, strained relationships with family and peers, dodging the police, and praying for peace fill her days. The book describes in detail the social and economic pressure on Cara and fellow gang members whose lives were shaped by poverty, family disorganization, and parental neglect. Fleisher looks for hope in Cara's life, tries to bring her a brighter future, and ultimately fails. Dead End Kids will break your heart.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780299158804
• ISBN-10: 0299158802
• Artikelnr.: 22358605

Autorenporträt

Mark S. Fleisher is a cultural anthropologist and criminal ethnographer, a former administrator in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and an associate professor of criminal justice sciences at Illinois State University. He is the author of the award-winning Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals, published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and of Warehousing Violence.