Do or die

Do or Die is the first insider account of teenage gangs-the lives, loves and battles of children who kill-from the only journalist ever allowed inside this closed and dangerous world.aThis is no West Side Story. Welcome to a world where teenagers wear colostomy bags and have scrapbooks filled with funeral invitations; where a young man, after being shot in the chest, drives himself to the hospital; where another youngster, caught in crossfire, uses his girlfriend as a human shield; where teenage gangsters are kidnapped, tortured and held for six-figure ransoms; where kids hum the latest movie theme music while killing people. It is a world of clickheads, sherms, bangers, ballers and mummyheads; a world where the strongest feelings of family come from other gang members; a world where the most potent feelings of self-worth come from murder.

Product details

• Authors: Leon Bing
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.1992
• EAN: 9780060922917
• ISBN: 978-0-06-092291-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, True Crime, Biography: general, Memoirs, Organized crime, Criminal or forensic psychology, Age groups: children, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, True crime: serial killers and murderers, Housing and homelessness, Criminal law: procedure and offences, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, SOCIAL SCIENCE: General, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Children's Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Criminals & Outlaws, TRUE CRIME: Historical, TRUE CRIME: Murder / Serial Killers, LAW: Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Criminology