Homeboys Forever The Lifetime Consequences of Gang Membership | 541.5 KB
Title: Homeboys Forever The Lifetime Consequences of Gang Membership
Author: Avelardo Valdez
Category: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Urban, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies
Language: English | 288 Pages | ISBN: 9780226848389
What is the end of the story after a lifetime in gangs?
Violence, addiction, imprisonment . . . we don’t have to look hard to see the negative consequences of gang involvement. But what does it look like to spend a life-from adolescence to adulthood-in gangs? Sociologist Avelardo Valdez and his research team have been following the lives of Mexican American men in San Antonio, Texas, over a remarkable twenty years, watching and listening as they navigate adolescent delinquency and gang involvement, advance into a life of crime, and-sometimes-attempt to break from gang life and build lives in conventional society.
When gang affiliation exploded in the 1990s, adolescent street gang membership surged in the Mexican American community of Westside San Antonio. Valdez was quick to begin investigating how young men embedded in a system with little support for lasting change turned to gang violence, drug use, and other risky behaviors. The…
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