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Until now, attention to gang life has been focused almost exclusively on the world of male gang bangers. But a disturbing new phenomenon across America has been the rise of girl gangs. In 8 Ball Chicks, veteran journalist Gini Sikes spends a year in the ghettos following girl gangs - white, black, and Latino - in South Central Los Angeles, in San Antonio, and in Milwaukee. Dismissed by the police as mere adjuncts to male gangs, girl gang bangers in fact are frequently as violent, emotionally closed off, and dangerous as their male counterparts, Sikes finds. Carrying razor blades in their…
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3 editions- Other · English · 1998Tandem Library · 9781417693894
- Other · English · 1998Anchor · 304 pages · 9780385474320
- Other · English · 1996Doubleday · 304 pages · 9780385474313
Gang membersJuvenile delinquencyGangsFemale juvenile delinquentsGirls, conduct of lifeGirlsJeunes délinquantesGangsters