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Thunderstruck
Author: Erik Larson
ISBN-10: 0739483331
ISBN-13: 9780739483336
Published: 2006
Publisher: Doubleday
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Always Running
Author: Luis J. Rodriguez
ISBN-10: 1880684063
ISBN-13: 9781880684061
Published: 1993-02-01
Publisher: Curbstone Books
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The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new cover. Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York Times notable book, and read by hundreds of thousands, Always Running is the searing true story of one man’s life in a Chicano gang—and his heroic struggle to free himself from its grip. By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East Los Angeles gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests and then watched with increasing fear as gang life claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and the power of words and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation. Achieving success as an award-winning poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no more—until his young son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in Always Running, a vivid memoir that explores the motivations of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its participants. At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Always Running is ultimately an uplifting true story, filled with hope, insight, and a hard-earned lesson for the next generation.
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Juvenile Justice in America
Author: Clemens Bartollas
ISBN-10: 0138576165
ISBN-13: 9780138576165
Published: 1997-06-30
Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div
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This second edition aims to explore and define the emerging component of Juvenile Justice in the United States and the special challenges facing juvenile justice in the 1990s.Bartollas and Miller focus on the control, correction and treatment of both juvenile offenders and delinquents. The book describes the jobs and problems of those practictioners in the justice system who work with youths and the workings of the important components of the juvenile justice system that brings both together.
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Juvenile Delinquency (5th Edition)
Author: Clemens Bartollas
ISBN-10: 0205293425
ISBN-13: 9780205293421
Published: 1999-08-24
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Book Description:
This is the fifth edition of a book that has long been popular with students. It provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of juvenile delinquency with a focus on a sociological examination of the issues. The chapters on causation examine old as well as new theories. The revision includes a new chapter on social reaction theories and one on female delinquency. The chapters on the family, school, gangs, and drugs have been thoroughly revised and updated for the fifth edition.
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Youth Gangs in American Society (Wadsworth Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice)
Author: Randall G. Shelden
ISBN-10: 0534221343
ISBN-13: 9780534221348
Published: 1996-04
Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
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Youth Gangs in American Society investigates the history and development of gangs through a broad approach that looks at several sociological aspects related to gangs -- from the basic human need to bond, to the media, to law enforcement's responsibility for creating an image of gangs that does not always reflect reality.This text also provides readers with a scholarly study of gangs supported by the latest research and statistics. It is an essential resource for anyone, particularly students of criminal justice, social work, and sociology, who needs to understand gang typology, culture, and activities.
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Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives
Author: Robert K. Ressler
ISBN-10: 066916559X
ISBN-13: 9780669165593
Published: 1988-03-01
Publisher: Free Press
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Book Description:
The author presents an in-depth account to the background, motivation and mental state of serial sexual killers.
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The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice (Wadsworth Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice)
Author: Joanne Belknap
ISBN-10: 0495090557
ISBN-13: 9780495090557
Published: 2006-07-27
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Book Description:
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN: GENDER, CRIME, AND JUSTICE is the definitive guide for the women and the criminal justice system course. The textbook covers topics ranging from female offenders to female victims. of crime to female employees of the criminal justice system.
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
Author: Herbert Asbury
ISBN-10: 1560252758
ISBN-13: 9781560252757
Published: 2001-10-10
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
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Book Description:
The Gangs of New York has long been hand-passed among its cult readership. It is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled, as Luc Sante has written, “from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research.” Asbury presents the definitive work on this subject, an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern Mafia and its depiction in films like The Godfather. “A universal history of infamy [that] contains all the confusion and cruelty of the barbarian cosmologies....”—Jorge Luis Borges “The tale is one of blood, excitement and debauchery.”—The New York Times Book Review “The Gangs of New York is one of the essential works of the city....”—Luc Sante, The New York Review of Books
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Life in the Gang: Family, Friends, and Violence (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
Author: Scott H. Decker
ISBN-10: 0521562929
ISBN-13: 9780521562928
Published: 1996-08-28
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book Description:
This study is based on three years of field work with ninety-nine active gang members and twenty-four family members. The book describes the attractiveness of gangs, the process of joining, their chaotic and loose organization, and their members' predominant activities--mostly hanging out, drinking, and using drugs--and their rather slapdash involvement in major property crime and drug traffic. Extensive interviews with family members provide groundbreaking insights into the gang members' lives, and the story is told largely in the gang members' own words.
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American Street Gangs
Author: Tim Delaney
ISBN-10: 0131710796
ISBN-13: 9780131710795
Published: 2005-08-13
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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This book provides a comprehensive review of all the critical elements relevant to the growing phenomenon of gang life. It is designed to provide the necessary background material of gangs so that readers gain a clear idea of the cultural and structural components of gang activity. This book provides an examination of the history of gangs, socio-psychological aspects of individual and group behavior, the major theories and socio-economic reasons as to why gangs exist, descriptions of all types of gangs, as well as law enforcement techniques. For those in law enforcement and criminal justice careers as well as the sociology field.
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