Fist Stick Knife Gun

Author: Geoffrey Canada
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807044628
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 137

Book Description
A new edition, including the story of the founding of the Harlem Children’s Zone Long before the avalanche of praise for his work—from Oprah Winfrey, from President Bill Clinton, from President Barack Obama—long before he became known for his talk show appearances, Members Project spots, and documentaries like Waiting for “Superman”, Geoffrey Canada was a small boy growing up scared on the mean streets of the South Bronx. His childhood world was one where “sidewalk boys” learned the codes of the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. Then the streets changed, and the stakes got even higher. In his candid and riveting memoir, Canada relives a childhood in which violence stalked every street corner.

Whatever it Takes

Author: Paul Tough
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780547247960
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
A portrait of African-American activist Geoffrey Canada describes his radical approach to eliminating inner-city poverty, one that proposes to transform the lives of poor children by changing their schools, their families, and their neighborhoods at the same time.

Somebody Else's Children

Author: John Hubner
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595300782
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
With the narrative force of an epic novel and the urgency of first-rate investigative journalism, this important book delves into the daily workings and life-or-death decisions of a typical American family court system. It provides an intimate look at the lives of the parents and children whose fate it decides. A must for social workers and social work students, attorneys, judges, foster parents, law students, child advocates, teachers, journalists and anyone who cares about our nation's children.

Fist Stick Knife Gun

Author: Geoffrey Canada
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606231718
Category : African American children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Geoffrey Canada was a small and scared boy growing up in the South Bronx. His childhood world was one where sidewalk boys learned the codes of the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, knife, and, finally, gun. In a stunning pai

Fist Stick Knife Gun

Author: Geoffrey Canada
Publisher: Everbind
ISBN: 9780784835906
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Pockets of Crime

Author: Peter K. B. St. Jean
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226775003
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
Why, even in the same high-crime neighborhoods, do robbery, drug dealing, and assault occur much more frequently on some blocks than on others? One popular theory is that a weak sense of community among neighbors can create conditions more hospitable for criminals, and another proposes that neighborhood disorder—such as broken windows and boarded-up buildings—makes crime more likely. But in his innovative new study, Peter K. B. St. Jean argues that we cannot fully understand the impact of these factors without considering that, because urban space is unevenly developed, different kinds of crimes occur most often in locations that offer their perpetrators specific advantages. Drawing on Chicago Police Department statistics and extensive interviews with both law-abiding citizens and criminals in one of the city’s highest-crime areas, St. Jean demonstrates that drug dealers and robbers, for example, are primarily attracted to locations with businesses like liquor stores, fast food restaurants, and check-cashing outlets. By accounting for these important factors of spatial positioning, he expands upon previous research to provide the most comprehensive explanation available of why crime occurs where it does.

Reaching Up for Manhood

Author: Geoffrey Canada
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807023221
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
From a troubled youth navigating the mean streets of the South Bronx to an inspiring educational activist who evokes praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, Geoffrey Canada has made a remarkable personal journey that cemented his dedication to underserved youth. His award-winning work was featured in Davis Guggenheim’s documentary Waiting for “Superman,” and he has been hailed by media, activists, teachers, and national leaders. Michelle Obama called him “one of my heroes,” and Oprah Winfrey refers to him as “an angel from God.” Here, Canada draws on his years of work with inner-city youth and on his own turbulent boyhood to offer a moving and revelatory look at the little-understood emotional lives of boys. And who better for this task than the man Elizabeth Mehren of the Los Angeles Times calls “one of this country’s leading advocates for youth.”

Edge of the Knife

Author: Paul Chevigny
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781565841840
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Examines police violence in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean, discussing its possible causes and some deterrents

Fist Stick Knife Gun

Author: Geoffrey Canada
Publisher: Everbind
ISBN: 9780784833971
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Blood on Her Hands

Author: Tanya Farber
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN: 186842927X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
Murder has always fascinated us, and when women are the masterminds, the intrigue grows exponentially. Not only are female murderers much rarer than male killers, but their crimes usually also involve a more sophisticated type of plotting. In Blood on her hands, award-winning journalist Tanya Farber investigates the lives, minds and motivations of some of South Africa's most notorious female murderers, from the poisonous nurse Daisy de Melker, to the privileged but deeply disturbed Najwa Petersen, to the mysterious Joey Harhoff who died before revealing where the bodies of her victims (including her own niece) were. Farber sets each case against the backdrop of the different eras and regions of 20th and early 21st century South Africa the women operated in. Her writing style is lighter than the subject matter might suggest and Blood on Her Hands will keep you reading until late at night – probably with your light on. The women featured also include: Dina Rodrigues, Phoenix Racing Cloud Theron, Marlene Lehnberg, Chane van Heerden and Celiwe Mbokazi.