Gangs that lurk on the edge of society

The best clues to fighting the present epidemic of gang crime may be more than 80 years old The interview took all day. I had sat with a gang member in a South London youth centre for hours. We covered his grim story in full: his upbringing (father had left, mother struggled to support him and his brother), expulsion from school, his first involvement (“shotting” or dealing, wraps of cocaine), when he was stabbed,... [read full story]