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The gang: A study of 1,313 gangs in Chicago by Frederic Milton Thrasher
Book by Thrasher, Frederic Milton
239 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1927
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December 4, 2025
“In any ubiquitous crowd of children, spontaneous play-groups are forming everywhere - gangs in embryo.”
"The kids face a real struggle for existence with other kids and with the antagonistic forces in their wider social environment. Based on interests and aptitudes, a play-group emerges whose activities vary from “hide-and-go-seek” to crap-shooting."
“Marriage is one of the most potent causes of disintegration. Gangs are largely an adolescent phenomenon, and occupy a period in the life of a boy between childhood, when he is usually incorporated in a family structure, and marriage, when he is reincorporated into a family and other orderly relations.”
"The kids face a real struggle for existence with other kids and with the antagonistic forces in their wider social environment. Based on interests and aptitudes, a play-group emerges whose activities vary from “hide-and-go-seek” to crap-shooting."
“Marriage is one of the most potent causes of disintegration. Gangs are largely an adolescent phenomenon, and occupy a period in the life of a boy between childhood, when he is usually incorporated in a family structure, and marriage, when he is reincorporated into a family and other orderly relations.”
November 10, 2020
TO MANY GANGS IN CHIC. TOWN TO MANY GANGSTERS EVERYWHERE.PUT DOWN THE GUNS DO NOT MAKE IS BAD NITS ONLY MADES US SAD .YET WE HAVE TO PERTECT OUR SELVES. NOW WE DONT NO WHY WE ARE GETTING ONE FOR THE GOOD BAD AND THE UGLY. LETS SAVE LIFE NOT TAKE LIVES GOD GAVE US LIFE ITS UP TO HIM TO TAKE IT NO MAN NOT WOMAN NOT CHILD GODS WORLD AMEN.
December 20, 2019
NICE BOOK.
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