gangs

L.A. Crip gang member Kody Scott recounts his life from the time he joined at eleven years old to being in solitary confinement at San Quentin.

The death of her best friend Ana in a drive-by shooting causes fifteen-year-old Kata to question her position in the Los Angeles gang life.

A teenage boy, sent for the summer to relatives in the mountains in order to remove him from gang influences, discovers life's important values through his unlikely friendship with an economically challenged boy.

In the summer of 1946, the newly elected county prosecutor of Hot Springs, Arkansas, hires Earl Swagger, a war veteran disturbed by dark memories of Iwo Jima and of his brutal father, to fight a war against the city's gangsters, led by an Englishman named Owney Maddox, who has a taste for brothels and casinos.

Dogcatcher, Anthony, has no idea that his girlfriend is a werewolf who has abandoned her pack, but her efforts to keep her secret lead to murderous results.

Provides a history of peace-making efforts by various street gangs since 1980, and advocates a peace process to prevent further destruction of the youth of American cities, and argues that neoconservative politics of law and order are damaging to inner-city youth.

Twelve-year-old Lena comes to live with her eccentric grandfather in a small Russian town and finds herself mocked and persecuted by a gang of her classmates at her new school.

The author tells about his one-year experiment teaching gang members from South Central Los Angeles in a one-room schoolhouse in 1982; and shares his experiences with gangs on the Salt River Reservation, Arizona, where the community takes a very different response to the problem of gang violence.

Draws from a variety of sources to describe the most infamous figures, places, and events to shape New York City's gang underworld from the early nineteenth century through the early twentieth.