Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+6203+4294962161 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1020925 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=588205 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=317348 Discusses why gangs exist and how to cope with the ever-present threat they can present to frightened teens and their families. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=266233 Whether your community faces an ongoing gang problem or wants to prevent one, Gangs: A Handbook for Community Awareness can help. This well-researched and easy-to-read guide to recognizing and understanding gangs is an essential resource in the effort to counter the dangerous and often violent culture of gang life. Written by a counselor, a police officer, and a teacher who have all successfully taken measures to halt the spread of gang-related violence, Gangs: A Handbook for Community Awareness combines testimonial, dramatizations, and detailed information to help communities build foundations that support their youth and deter their affiliation with gang members.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=139409 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=123850 The American Street Gang provides a detailed accounting, through statistics, interviews, and personal experience, of what street gangs are, how they have changed, their involvement in drug sales, and why we have not been able to stop them. Klein has been studying street gangs for more than thirty years, and he brings a sophisticated understanding of the problem to bear in this often surprising book. In contrast to the image of rigid organization and military-style leadership we see in the press, he writes, street gangs are usually loose bodies of associates, with informal and multiple leadership. Street gangs, he makes clear, are quite distinct from drug gangs - though they may share individual members. In a drug-selling operation tight discipline is required - the members are more like employees - whereas street gangs are held together by affiliation and common rivalries, with far less discipline. With statistics and revealing anecdotes, Klein offers a strong critique of the approach of many law enforcement agencies, which have demonized street gangs while ignoring the fact that they are the worst possible bodies for running disciplined criminal operations - let alone colonizing other cities. On the other hand, he shows that street gangs do spur criminal activity, and he demonstrates the shocking rise in gang homicides and the proliferation of gangs across America. Ironically, he writes, the liberal approach to gangs advocated by many (assigning a social worker to a gang, organizing non-violent gang activities) can actually increase group cohesion, which leads to still more criminal activity. And programs to erode that cohesion, Klein tells us from personal experience, can work - but they require intensive, exhausting effort.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=117726 This is the true story of four young boys. Four lifelong friends. Intelligent, fun-loving, wise beyond their years, they are inseparable. Their potential is unlimited, but they are content to live within the closed world of New York Citys Hells Kitchen. And to play as many pranks as they can on the denizens of the street. They never get caught. And they know they never will. Until one disastrous summer afternoon. On that day, what begins as a harmless scheme goes horribly wrong. And the four find themselves facing a years imprisonment in the Wilkinson Home for Boys. The oldest of them is fifteen, the youngest twelve. What happens to them over the course of that year - brutal beatings, unimaginable humiliation - will change their lives forever. Years later, one has become a lawyer. One a reporter. And two have grown up to be murderers, professional hitmen. For all of them, the pain and fear of Wilkinson still rages within. Only one thing can erase it. Revenge. To exact it, they will twist the legal system. Commandeer the courtroom for their agenda. Use the wiles they observed on the streets, the violence they learned at Wilkinson. If they get caught this time, they only have one thing left to lose: their lives.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=114424 In the tradition of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Manchild in the Promised Land--an explosive memoir of hopelessness and resurrection that vividly portrays the brutality of barrio gang life. A timely exploration into the roots of Latino rage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=72322 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=219852 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=93599