Nasty, Brutish, and Short: The Lives of Gang Members in Canada - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1459400380 ISBN 13: 9781459400382

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Totten...has spent the past 15 years studying Canada's gangs in an attempt to take an unprecedented look into the problem.

The recently published " Nasty, Brutish and Short: The Lives of Gang Members in Canada" is the book that resulted from his extensive efforts."--Jeffrey Simpson"Chronicle Herald" (04/29/2012)

"Totten...has spent the past 15 years studying Canada's gangs in an attempt to take an unprecedented look into the problem...The recently published Nasty, Brutish and Short: The Lives of Gang Members in Canada is the book that resulted from his extensive efforts."--Jeffrey Simpson"Chronicle Herald" (04/29/2012)

-Totten...has spent the past 15 years studying Canada's gangs in an attempt to take an unprecedented look into the problem...The recently published Nasty, Brutish and Short: The Lives of Gang Members in Canada is the book that resulted from his extensive efforts.---Jeffrey Simpson-Chronicle Herald- (04/29/2012)

The book is exceptionally reader friendly and written in a mostly narrative and descriptive style. The book is punctuated with numerous compelling and at times gut-wrenching, if not haunting, first-hand accounts from the 300-plus interviews that Totten has collected over the past 15 years. Totten deftly combines his strong academic training and over 20 years of experience working with youth at risk in Canada to produce one of the most comprehensive and tour de force accountings of gangs and gang members in Canada. In short, this book should be on the reading list of anyone who is the least bit interested in learning about risk factors in becoming a gang memberfor some young people, the honesty of gang life and culture, what we can/should be doing to help prevent young people from joining gangs, as well as how to assist gang members in exiting gangs.Finally, the author concludes with a frank and arguably irrefutable conclusion about how our conventional criminal justice responses to gangs are both ill informed and misguided.--John Winterdyk, Dept of Justice Studies, Mount Royal University"Youth Voice Journal" (07/01/2013)

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An expert takes us inside the dark world of gangs in Canada.

Dr. Mark Totten has spent fifteen years learning all about these gangs and the young men and women who belong to them. He has interviewed over 500 gang members across the country, traced their lives from infancy to adulthood, and explored the roots of their involvement in crime and their reliance on violence.

Nasty, Brutish and Short offers a groundbreaking picture of the reality of gangs in Canada. Much of what Dr. Totten has to say is at odds with popular ideas. His research leads him to believe that breaking through the circumstances that produce young criminals is far more difficult than most people think. For most individuals caught up in gang life, exiting that world is next to impossible -- in fact, the most common way out is an early death from violence or suicide. This book opens the door on a way of life unknown to most Canadians.

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• ISBN 10: 1459400380
• ISBN 13: 9781459400382
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