Gangs: A Guide to Understanding Street Gangs - 5th Edition (Professional Development

by Al Valdez

This popular text is a comprehensive guide for law enforcement and criminal justice-related professionals, mental health professionals, teachers and parents. It includes gang life style, sociology and characteristics Latino, Asian, African-American, White Supremacists, Prison, Outlaw Motorcycle, Occult and Hybrid gangs. The author, Al Valdez, had been in law enforcement for over 17 years and has presented formal gang training to hundreds of police officers, investigators and probation officers, as well as gang awareness classes for parents and teachers

Genres: Nonfiction

510 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2009

Reviews

[Sara]

Very biased, one-sided account of gangs and the reasons people join them.