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Wannabe - Gangs in Suburbs and Schools (Paperback, New)
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Wannabe - Gangs in Suburbs and Schools (Paperback, New)
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Wannabe is the first book written about youth gangs in suburbs and
schools. Based on interviews with over 400 boys and girls between
the ages of ten and twenty, the author offers a vivid portrayal of
their lives in and around gangs. It chronicles the way in which
suburban youths become involved with gangs, learn about committing
crimes and violent acts, and gradually begin to question their
loyalty to gang life.Contrary to the popular view of gang members
as thoughtless thugs, Monti describes the difficult choices they
make and explores the youngsters' ambivalence toward dealing in
illegal narcotics and taking up arms against neighbors and their
fellow students. Youngsters use gangs to express their disdain for
an adult world that provides them with few effective ways to become
a conventional person and, at the same time, as a means to
negotiate an entrance into that very world.Surburban Gnags are seen
to be different from innercity gangs in some important ways. What
young persons find in their families, neighbourhoods, and schools
clearly has an impact on the making and unmaking of gang members.
Existing theories and intervention strategies intended to suppress
gangs or lure youngsters from gangs are found to be ineffective.
Far more important, Monti argues, are explanations of gang
behaviour that focus on the power of conventional institutions to
make human beings that move from gangs into the larger world as the
youngsters grow older. An ambitious plan to rebuild a middle-class
population of residents and business owners in cities is advanced
as a way to help young persons make their way into the conventional
adult world that has heretofore been denied.
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