Timed to coincide with the "Sky One documentary" series, this book sees Ross Kemp, star of ITV's "Ultimate Force", travelling to encounter some of the most lethal gangs in the world today. Beginning in the brutal favelas of Rio de Janeiro, where, a stone's throw from the wealth and opulence of the beaches, impoverished masses are squeezed into tiny, filth-ridden streets, terrorized by boys as young as nine armed to the teeth with the latest weaponry, Kemp dares to go where others fear to tread. He penetrates into the heartland of the gangs' territories, exploring both the social decay that causes boys (and girls) to join gangs, and the urban mayhem they wreak. Around the world, from the former East Germany, where youths dress and adopt the mannerisms of the SS, to New Zealand, where the Mongrel Mob attracts New Zealand's disowned and disillusioned, gang violence is on the rise: in Chicago, the Kings and Queens gang claims a standing army of 30,000. Kemp sets out to discover what makes these gangs so attractive: the fashion, music, slang, handshakes, festivals, even religions that give each gang a unique identity.
"Gangs Around the World" is by turns a fascinating, colourful, shocking account of the biggest criminal movement of the last fifty years.
- ISBN10 1844137007
- ISBN13 9781844137008
- Publish Date 1 January 2099
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 31 October 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Century
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English