Life in the Gang: Family, Friends, and Violence
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'...
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Extensive interviews with gang members and their relatives provides unique picture of gang life.
AcknowledgmentsPrefaceCh. 1Life in the Gang: Family, Friends, and Violence1Ch. 2"Are You Claiming?" Methods of Study27Ch. 3"I'm Down with the Bloods, What's up Cuz?" Membership Issues56Ch. 4"We Ain't No Worldwide Thing or Nothing": Gang Structure and Relationships85Ch. 5"Where You Hanging? Let's Go Banging": What Gang Members Do117Ch. 6"I Love to Bang": Serious Crime by Gang Members144Ch. 7"Doing Time" in School and Elsewhere: Gang Members and Social Institutions187Ch. 8"My Mom Doesn't Know": Gang Members and Their Families230Ch. 9"There's Only Two Ways to Leave the Gang, Die or Move": Responding to Gangs261Notes281References287Index of Gang Members, Relatives, and Ex-Members293Subject Index297
