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1) Gangs
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Gangs exist in places all over the world. The United States, however, is believed to have more gangs than any other country in the world. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues surrounding gangs, including how and why young people are lured into gangs and the consequences of gang involvement. Firsthand accounts and current statistics provide an insightful look at this issue.
2) Gangs
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A Booklist Editors Choice and a Society of School Librarians International (SSLI) Honor BookStreet gangs have exploded worldwide. Tattoos, baggy pants, tagging, gangsta style, the unspoken threat -- it's all just around the corner in most of the world's major cities. From the streets of Los Angeles to the shantytowns of Cape Town, hundreds of thousands of "at risk" youth are deciding whether they should join their local gang. Violence, guns, the drug...
3) Gangs
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The primary source writings in this anthology have been selected to provide your readers with a broad spectrum of viewpoints on gangs and gang violence. Readers will evaluate the causes of gang formation and gang violence, and whether the number of gangs and gang violence is increasing in the United States. An important question about the topic is presented in each chapter, and viewpoints are organized based on their response. Fact boxes summarize...
4) Gangs
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More than eighty percent of American cities with a population of 100,000 or more report gang activity. Most of these gangs are made up of members who are eight to twenty-two years old. These statistics point to a larger unfortunate truth, at some point, our youth will have an encounter or an experience with gangs. It is important that they understand this world and how it operates. This collection of essays helps readers navigate the issues. Readers...
5) Gangs
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According to the FBI, 33,000 violent street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs, with nearly 1.4 million members, are criminally active in the U.S. today. One of the most notorious and dangerous gangs, Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, originated in Los Angeles and has as many as 50,000 members. The Justice Department credits gangs with illegal smuggling, transportation, and distribution of large amounts of drugs in the United States. This expansive...
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2 videodiscs (166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points. "Billy the Butcher" bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish gang "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon. After an bloody clash Vallon is dead and his son ends up in a brutal reform school. In 1862, that boy returns to seek vengeance against the man that killed his father.
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3 videodiscs (9 hrs., 14 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"When Finn Wallace, the head of London's most powerful crime family, is assassinated, no one knows who ordered the hit. With rivals everywhere, Finn's impulsive son Sean takes over and puts a stop to all criminal business in London until his father's killer is found. As the city is torn apart by the power struggles of the international gangs that control it, Sean finds the only person he can rely on is Elliot Finch, a low level enforcer with a mysterious...
10) Gangs and Drugs
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After a restful holiday in America, CS Mason of C-Cut is thrown into work-related things, but is also kept busy with the team's other many projects. Yet he sets up even more projects as well as being tasked with a major gun shootout in Birmingham. Whilst the C-Cut team works cases, CS Mason starts to discipline officers of all ranks that are rude, colour prejudiced or not doing their jobs right. This leads to the Commissioner and Home Secretary asking...
11) Gangs to God
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Is "gangsta" real, or is God real?
Is it better to know the truth now or never?
Want to know about the truth of why God uses evil for good? Then check this book out! It doesn't matter who you are, "gangsta" or not. As long as you are human, you will understand the purpose and meaning of life after reading this book.
13) Gangs and Ghosts
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When I was three years old, I was found homeless in the woods, alone and feral.
When asked how I survived all of those years by myself, I had one answer: the Shadow Man. I have no memory of that time. No memory of anything, really, before the accident. I rely on stories from my fathers about this supposed imaginary friend. Got into a fight at school? The Shadow Man made me. Stole from a store? He forced me to. Snuck out of the house? He came with...
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The 1950s and 1960s saw a changing of the guard in London's gangland. A new and even more ruthless breed of criminal emerged to replace the aging generation of likes of Sabini, Mullins and Hayes.
Protection rackets on bookies, club owners and shops were commonplace. Prostitution and drugs offered rich pickings. Police corruption was all too commonplace.
Thanks to media interest the names of Charlie Richardson, Mad Frankie Fraser, Scarface Smithson...
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The returning heroes had been forgotten by their country. Men who had risked life and limb in the hellish world of the First World War trenches had no choice but to fight again; this time, for their livelihoods, their families, and a place in society.
Reduced to marching with motley suburban regiments, these were the men who left behind the war in Europe, and returned to fight their own wars on the streets of the Steel City. Rifles had been replaced...
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With over half of every urban-city public school student affiliates with or affected by gangs, this book needs to be in every teacher's, principal's, and youth worker's hands in order to learn about black gangs. You will learn the origin and history of black gangs, and then you will learn how to identify and work with them. This is a very serious issue- with bullying, violence, dropouts, and suspensions looming, not to mention the teachers and school...
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There is no true peace in the city of Royalty; only a weary calm before an ever-growing storm. There was a time when things were more simplistic, when the gangs of the city governed themselves and protected their own territories. That was before the Lyone Family rose to power. Before they took control of the city by force and executed those who opposed them. There are those who believe that the city was better off before the Lyone Family came to power...
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There's a gang war happening in the Luangwa Valley in Zambia, a battle among hippos for territory, dominance, mating rights, and survival. The reason? Dry season-a seven-month drought that forces over 30,000 hippos to the deepest part of the river to stay wet and cool. Follow these three-ton beasts as they fight lions, crocodiles, and other hippo gangs, struggling to stay alive until the next rainfall. Only then can they return to the lush paradise...
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Tucked right next to the famous Kruger National Park is one of the largest private game reserves in South Africa-Mala Mala. It is home to a bounty of wildlife, including the Big Five. They're the most ferocious animals to hunt on foot, and the buffalo is the most aggressive. And yet, all that these otherwise placid bovines want is to be left alone so they can graze in safety, celebrate their new life, and live in peace. But there is no peace. They...
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