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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University of Wisconsin Press, 2000 Cloth: 978-0-299-15880-4 eISBN: 978-0-299-15883-5 Paper: 978-0-299-15884-2
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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