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- catalog abstract "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 mouths and guns in their jackets, they initiate drive-by shootings, carry out car-jackings, stomp outsiders who stumble into the neighborhood, viciously retaliate against other gangs, and ferociously guard their home turf. But Sikes also captures the unique differences that distinguish girl gangs - abortion, teen pregnancy, teen motherhood, endless. Beatings, the humiliation of being forced to have sex with a lineup of male gang bangers, and the struggle to raise kids in a household of drugs and guns with a part-time boyfriend who is off gang banging himself. In following the lives of several key gang members in each city, we discover the fear and desperate desire for safety and status that drive girls into gangs in the first place - and the dreams and ambitions that occasionally help them to escape the catch-22 of. Their existence.".
- catalog alternative "Eight ball chicks".
- catalog contributor b10049070.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Beatings, the humiliation of being forced to have sex with a lineup of male gang bangers, and the struggle to raise kids in a household of drugs and guns with a part-time boyfriend who is off gang banging himself. In following the lives of several key gang members in each city, we discover the fear and desperate desire for safety and status that drive girls into gangs in the first place - and the dreams and ambitions that occasionally help them to escape the catch-22 of.".
- catalog description "Prologue -- Where the girls are -- Los Angeles -- San Antonio -- Milwaukee -- L.A. Redux -- Epilogue -- Afterword.".
- catalog description "Their existence.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Violent, emotionally closed off, and dangerous as their male counterparts, Sikes finds. Carrying razor blades in their mouths and guns in their jackets, they initiate drive-by shootings, carry out car-jackings, stomp outsiders who stumble into the neighborhood, viciously retaliate against other gangs, and ferociously guard their home turf. But Sikes also captures the unique differences that distinguish girl gangs - abortion, teen pregnancy, teen motherhood, endless.".
- catalog extent "xxv, 276 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "8 ball chicks.".
- catalog identifier "0385474318".
- catalog isFormatOf "8 ball chicks.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Anchor Books,".
- catalog relation "8 ball chicks.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "364.3/6/082 20".
- catalog subject "Female juvenile delinquents United States.".
- catalog subject "Gang members United States.".
- catalog subject "Gangs United States.".
- catalog subject "HV9104 .S54 1997".
- catalog subject "Juvenile delinquency United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue -- Where the girls are -- Los Angeles -- San Antonio -- Milwaukee -- L.A. Redux -- Epilogue -- Afterword.".
- catalog title "8 ball chicks : a year in the violent world of girl gangsters / Gini Sikes.".
- catalog title "Eight ball chicks".
- catalog type "text".