Dead End Kids: Gang Girls and the Boys They Know

Resource Type

Book

Description

"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." --Publisher (bn.com)

Ages

All Ages

Age Groups

Adulthood (22+)

Languages

English

ISBN

0299158845

Author

Mark S. Fleisher

Publication

2000 University of Wisconsin Press

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