num_pages: 296
description: Dead End Kids exposes both the depravity and the humanity in gang life through the eyes of a teenaged girl named Cara, a member of a Kansas City gang. In this shocking yet compassionate account, Mark Fleisher shows how gang girls’ lives are shaped by poverty, family disorganization, and parental neglect.
language: English
title: Dead End Kids: Gang Girls and the Boys They Know
titlecomplete: Dead End Kids: Gang Girls and the Boys They Know
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 37
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press