Gangs (Groundwork Guides)
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Product Description
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.
Review
“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.
