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- Dead End Kids: Gang Girls and the Boys They Know
- Book
- 1998
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 3-12
- 1. The Call
- pp. 13-14
- 2. Fremont Hustlers
- pp. 15-38
- 4. Families
- pp. 59-70
- 5. Dark Side
- pp. 71-85
- 7. 5403 Smart: the Northeast Gangstas
- pp. 98-117
- 8. The Arrest
- pp. 118-129
- 9. Borderline
- pp. 130-164
- 10. Wrong Side
- pp. 165-186
- 11. Miscarriage
- pp. 187-201
- 12. Pregnant Again
- pp. 202-204
- 13. A Look Back
- pp. 205-209
- 14. Gang Girls, Gang Babies
- pp. 210-225
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299158835
Related ISBN(s)
9780299158804, 9780299158842
MARC Record
OCLC
44961297
Pages
296
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2000