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Homeboys Forever : The Lifetime Consequences of Gang Membership.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Valdez, Avelardo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gang members.
- Hispanic American men.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- 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?.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Tony's bus ride back home
- Living and growing up on the West Side
- Institutional stigmatization: the making of a delinquent youth
- Life in the gang: survival and hypermasculinity
- Boys to men: participation in adult drug markets
- The revolving door of prison
- La familia: partnership, fatherhood, and family
- Long-term health consequences of gang life
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Valdez, Avelardo Homeboys Forever
- ISBN:
- 9780226848389
- OCLC:
- 1592689950
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