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Gang Leader for a Day

a Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Oct 13, 2014KCLSRecommends rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
When Venkatesh first entered an abandoned housing project in Chicago, he was simply looking for people to answer a multiple-choice survey about urban poverty. He never imagined that as a result of the assignment he would befriend a gang leader and spend the better part of the next decade inside the projects documenting what he saw there.