America is experiencing a serious problem with urban youth gangs. Teenagers are becoming involved at an alarming rate in the deadly business of drug-trafficking, and murdering to protect that business. The US traditional juvenile justice system, designed to deal with lesser infractions of the law, is not meeting this challenge. Today's organized inner-city gangs are large-scale drug operations. They take on a Fortune 500 look, with divisions administering marketing, sales and accounting, and they amass multi-million dollar profits that are invisible and illegal.
This investigation offers a starting point from which we might begin to combat the urban youth gangs in Detroit as well as the many other areas experiencing similar problems. No community - urban, suburban, or rural - has escaped the far-reaching effects of drug-related crime. No one is immune.
- ISBN10 0870132873
- ISBN13 9780870132872
- Publish Date 30 July 1990 (first published 1 January 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 16 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Michigan State University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 149
- Language English