Mark Totten
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 Gang Life10 of the toughest tell their stories |
For the first time, here’s a no-holds-barred inside account of life for criminal gang members in cities and towns across Canada. Mark Totten has slowly gained the confidence of gang members … | Mark Totten | 216 | 2014 | View |
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From IntroductionFrom: Gang Life |
describes how he came about to writing this book and his history of interest in gangs. Analyzes the different types of gangs. Describes legal obligations of his interviews. Explains some … | Mark Totten | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From I did not know who I wasFrom: Gang Life |
twenty-five-year-old Kim describes a life, both inside and outside her gang, in which “I did not know who I was.” Her childhood and early adolescence were wracked with rejection and … | Mark Totten | 21 | 2014 | $2.10 Add |
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From Jesus don’t work for anyoneFrom: Gang Life |
tells the story of thirty-three-year-old Terrence, a mixed race “independent enforcer” who found the Lord just in time for a parole hearing. Terrence has a rather large ego and he … | Mark Totten | 16 | 2014 | $1.60 Add |
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From The Gang MotherFrom: Gang Life |
Monica, a forty-fiveyear- old lesbian gang mother. Now clean after too many years of injecting morphine and cocaine, she takes in young gang members and cares for them. She was terrorized by a … | Mark Totten | 19 | 2014 | $1.90 Add |
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From I won’t back downFrom: Gang Life |
Jake, who is Caucasian and twenty-eight years old, takes us on a whirlwind tour that parallels the emotional and behavioural problems that plagued his childhood with his life in a gang. He was … | Mark Totten | 19 | 2014 | $1.90 Add |
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From What a Rush it wasFrom: Gang Life |
The story of Janie, aged twenty-five, and George, eight years older, is in Chapter Five. Both Aboriginal, they were married until George killed a rival a couple of years ago. He also tried to … | Mark Totten | 18 | 2014 | $1.80 Add |
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From I’ve got to throw out the bones nowFrom: Gang Life |
Dillon, aged thirty-three and a Latino father of two, tells his story in Chapter Six. Along with five friends, he founded a gang in high school. A few years later he was asked to patch over and … | Mark Totten | 18 | 2014 | $1.80 Add |
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From My shoulder was a bit sore from that rocket thingFrom: Gang Life |
Gilbert, a Métis man aged thirty-four years, and Maureen, thirty-five years, live on a small reserve. Their lives are described in Chapter Seven. Both are hard-core addicts and have two boys … | Mark Totten | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From If I told you I’d have to kill youFrom: Gang Life |
meet thirty-two-year-old Jeremy and thirty-year-old Dawn. Jeremy is a scrawny transporter of guns, drugs, and money for various gangs. Despite having Aboriginal blood, he passes as white, which … | Mark Totten | 16 | 2014 | $1.60 Add |
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From From Civil War to GangsFrom: Gang Life |
Jafar, a Sudanese refugee and father of two, recounts a harrowing story in Chapter Nine. When he was four years old, his family fled a civil war that had taken the lives of many relatives. He … | Mark Totten | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From Terms and ConditionsFrom: Gang Life |
The story of Ivan is told in Chapter Ten. He is forty-one years of age, and he came to Canada as a young boy when his family — mother, stepfather, and younger brother — fled a civil … | Mark Totten | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From ConclusionFrom: Gang Life |
the conclusion of the book attempts to answer the question how do people end up on a pathway to serious and violent offending? | Mark Totten | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
