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Title: Dead End Kids: Gang Girls and the Boys They Know by Mark S. Fleisher ISBN: 0-299-15884-5 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: 25 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Disgusted, too
Comment: Fleischer desribes the awful conditions that these kids live in and then places the blame on the police, Division of Family Services, the Juvenile Court system, and finally the "entire community of Kansas City." He not only was irresponsible for his failure to hotline these kids, he actually condones their drug dealing. He said he didn't see any other option they had. Give me a break! There are four social service agency willing to help within walking distance of these kids and Fleischer never mentions that.
Overall, a poorly written book by an irresponsible professor.
Rating: 1
Summary: Disgusted!
Comment: Fleisher vividly describes the abusive treatment the children of these gansters received from their parents and their ganster friends, the filth they lived in, the lack of food and the overall dangerous living conditions. Did he report this to Family Services? Professor Fleisher is a mandated reporter and conducting research for a best seller should not discount his responsibility to those children in helping to make them safe. I am appalled that a Criminal Justice professor would write with such coldness and lack of concern: "It always took me a week to 10 days before I stopped recalling in my mind's eye the sight of Amy and RoniRo sequestered with Teresa and Kevin." pg. 97 I hope Professor Fleisher sleeps well knowing these children will soon be teenagers and his contribution to their well-being.
Rating: 5
Summary: I'm a sucker for Oprah-esque sociology books
Comment: I rarely ever come across "page turners" when it comes to reading sociology works -- but I was not able to put Dead End Kids down. This book is a real gem because it does two great things -- 1) puts one rawly in touch with other's lives, and 2) sets forth social policy suggestions based on the research. Having stumbled across this book in the library by random, I now plan to reading more of Fleisher's work.
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Title: 8 Ball Chicks by Gini Sikes ISBN: 0385474326 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 20 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: One of the Guys: Girls, Gangs, and Gender by Jody Miller ISBN: 0195130782 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Life in the Gang : Family, Friends, and Violence by Scott H. Decker, Barrik van Winkle, Steve Decker, Barrik Van Winkle ISBN: 0521565669 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King by Reymundo Sanchez, Rey Sanchez ISBN: 1556524277 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Always Running: LA Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez ISBN: 0671882317 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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