Overview: Compiles authentic interviews with former gang members.Details warning signs and risk factors of gang involvement in youth.Offers solutions for what schools can do to prevent youth gang involvement.This book delves deep into the hidden population of former gang members who share their positive and negative experiences of being gang members. Their stories of violence, hopelessness, despair, and loneliness also offer a seed of hope – they contain the building blocks for prevention. By understanding why they each turned to gangs, how they turned to gangs, and what went wrong for some al
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