Gangs: A Groundwork Guide (Groundwork Guides, 14)

By Richard Swift

Book Overview

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. Gangs exposes the roots of the problem, from the bidonvilles of France to the favelas of Brazil. It offers a startling analysis of the complicity of the adult world, as well as hard-hitting reforms that might just undermine the appeal of gang life. Most of all, it shows that we fail to understand gangs at our peril.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888999798
• ISBN13: 9780888999795
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Groundwood Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 0.5" x 5.3"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher