Jumped In What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption

Name: Jumped In What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption
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ISBN: 9780807044810

ISBN-10: 0807044814

ISBN-13: 9780807044810

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Authors: Jorja Leap

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When Jorja Leap began studying Los Angeles gang violence in 2002, she encountered a myriad of proposed solutions to the seemingly intractable “gang problem” and set out to discover what wasreallygoing on. The stakes—then and now—could not be higher: a child or teenager is killed by gunfire every three hours—and homicide is the leading cause of death for African American males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four. InJumped In,Leap brings us stories that reach behind the statistics and sensational media images to the real lives of those stuck in—and trying to escape—"la vida loca.”With the eye of an anthropologist and a heart full of compassion, this small, tough woman from UCLA…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 1/8/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English




Napalm



Chameleon



Mi Vida Loca



Living with the LAPD



Big Mike



Adopting New Ideas



Nuns and Bitches



Poor Black Woman



Mario



Fear Rules over Love



Teardrops



The Lost Boys



The Streets Will Be Me



Intervention



Business



Self-Medication



The Ties That Bind



Fathers of the Community



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