Peace in the streets
Subtitle: breaking the cycle of gang violence
By: Arturo Hernandez.
Publisher: Child Welfare League of America
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Gangs -- United States -- Case studies.; Gang members -- United States -- Rehabilitation.; Gang members -- United States -- Psychology.; Gang members -- United States -- Biography.; Gang members -- Family relationships.
Description: The author tells about his one-year experiment teaching gang members from South Central Los Angeles in a one-room schoolhouse in 1982; and shares his experiences with gangs on the Salt River Reservation, Arizona, where the community takes a very different response to the problem of gang violence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

CONTENTs:
Huero dies at the laundramat --  Losing Shorty --  Silent desperation --  Marisela --  A tiny triumph --  A puppet story --  Condemned places --  How I almost wiped out the whole gang --  Everything but the money --  What Sugar Ray would do --  Books, or Sharky goes to prep school --  Rice and beans : teaching gangs in a one-room school ... --  Roll call --  Sharky and Lil Man learn to read --  Birds on a wire, or Smiley puts two and two together --  Playboy meets the Buddha --  Never far from home --  I lean on Casper and Sharky --  If you build it --  Lonely and Playboy nearly take the town --  When Woody left the gang (and no one noticed)… --  “The best school I ever been to” --  Lessons from the living and the dead --  The gang-free community --  Step 1 : the community affirms all its children --  Step 2 : the children’s advocate and the child-raising community --  Step 3 : creating and supporting transformative schools --  Step 4 : parents as partners, not patients --  Step 5 : supporting transitions between institutions --  Step 6 : identifying disabilities --  Step 7 : something to care about and take pride in ... --  Step 8 : promoting recovery from addictions --  Final thoughts.