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Dead End Kids: Gang Girls and the Boys They Know

by Mark S. Fleisher

University of Wisconsin Press, 2000
Cloth: 978-0-299-15880-4 | eISBN: 978-0-299-15883-5 | Paper: 978-0-299-15884-2
Library of Congress Classification HV9106.K2F58 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.360820977841

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Dead End Kids exposes both the depravity and the humanity in gang life through the eyes of a teenaged girl named Cara, a member of a Kansas City gang. In this shocking yet compassionate account, Mark Fleisher shows how gang girls’ lives are shaped by poverty, family disorganization, and parental neglect.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Mark S. Fleisher is a cultural anthropologist and criminal ethnographer, a former administrator in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and an associate professor of criminal justice sciences at Illinois State University. He is the author of the award-winning Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals, published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and of Warehousing Violence.

REVIEWS

“Most of society has given up on these girls. Dead End Kids shows us why this is a tragic mistake.”—Elizabeth Mehren, national correspondent, Los Angeles Times

“A lively, compelling tale of urban misery and dashed hope, Fleisher’s work humanizes gang girls and identifies the psychological, cultural, and social forces that condemn the distaff side of America’s [gangs] to their dead-end lives.”—Donna Gaines, Village Voice Literary Supplement

“Fleisher aptly describes the economic and social pressures that contribute to gang formation, youth violence, teen pregnancy, and other social ills plaguing U.S. cities.”—Vanessa Bush, Booklist

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Call

2. Fremont Hustlers

3. Inside

4. Families

5. Dark Side

6. Misery

7. 5403 Smart: the Northeast Gangstas

8. The Arrest

9. Borderline

10. Wrong Side

11. Miscarriage

12. Pregnant Again

13. A Look Back

14. Gang Girls, Gang Babies

15. Street Enthography: Methods, Ethics, and Politics

Notes

Index

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