Gangs (Groundwork Guides) - Hardcover

Swift, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0888999798 ISBN 13: 9780888999795

Publisher: Groundwood Books, 2011

Synopsis

<div>Street gangs have exploded in popularity worldwide. Tattoos, baggy pants, tagging, gangsta style clothes &#151; 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&#8217;s brew of violence, guns, drugs, racism, poverty, families under pressure, and ever-widening slums. <i>Gangs</i> 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.</div>

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Review

"The authors [of the "Groundwork Guides"] express strong viewpoints that are sure to jolt readers into ready agreement or opposition."
-- "School Library Journal"

"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"
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"

"The authors [of the Groundwork Guides] express strong viewpoints that are sure to jolt readers into ready agreement or opposition."
-- 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

About the Author

Richard 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Groundwood Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0888999798
• ISBN 13: 9780888999795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144