gangs

As a result of spending a lot of his time in a neighborhood bar where he likes the piano music, talented young musician Lou has an exciting brush with organized crime.

Presents contrasting viewpoints on the following questions: "How serious a problem are gangs in the United States?" "What factors encourage gang behavior?" and "How can gangs be eliminated?".

Brother and sister DeMarco and Jasmine Winslow are growing up in the Atlanta ghetto, and when life in the ghetto gets too rough DeMarco commits petty theft to end up in juvie, and Jasmine joins the DIVAs, a rough group of girls.

Reluctantly a young boy becomes more and more involved in the activities of a local gang, until a tragic event involving his cousin forces him to make a choice about the course of his life.

After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs.

Provides information about gangs, looks at some of the reasons people join gangs, discusses the problems associatedwith gangs, and explains how to get out. Includes a glossary and references.

As headman of his teenage gang, Rufus Henry has to deal not only with other gangs, but also with the police sanctioned sponsor who has involved himself with Rufus and his friends.

Living in a neighborhood of drug dealers and gangs in New Mexico, high school junior Eddie Corazon, a juvenile delinquent-in-training, falls in love with a girl who inspires him to rethink his life and his choices.

After a brawl with a rival gang, sixteen-year-old Azael, a member of Houston's MS-13 gang and the son of illegal Salvadoran immigrants, wakes up in an unusual juvenile detention center where he is forced to observe another inmate through a one-way mirror.

When the author began studying Los Angeles gang violence in 2002, a child or teenager was killed by gunfire every three hours and homicide was the leading cause of death for African American males between the ages of fifteen and thiry-four. Not much has changed today. Going beyond the statistics, she got to know murderers, drug dealers, victims and grieving mothers as she seached for answers to stop the violence.