Dead End Kids: Gang Girls and the Boys They Know

· Univ of Wisconsin Press
3.5
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296
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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.

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3.5
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A Google user
February 15, 2012
First off that book is 12 years old. I'm in that book. My mom too. I was in the car with Wendy and Cara, driver side backseat. What this idiot says below me is callous and your kind of asking for a beating kid. Lets get one thing straight boy. Cara and Wendy did not deserve to die. In case you don't know Wendy did die several years later dick. Cara was the sweetest person I knew. The book does get some facts wrong (Bernard was NOT at 13th and White when Thomas Cook opened fire at Lucky) He overplayed our hustle. Ok book but the honest truth is, Mark was a terrible sociologist and author. Ohhh the old days... and fremont hustlers was not a female gang, we were just way ahead of the "Hybrid Gang" model of gangs you see now. We were boys and girls, bloods and crips, but we loved our neighborhood and not Eddie Solo, Chris Pace, Rolo, no one was going to run those blocks. Shout to Fro
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Dara Ayers
March 4, 2013
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About the author

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.

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