Gang crime: another approach

New Statesman A short walk east from the gleaming glass of the RBS building by Liverpool Street station, through Brick Lane, through the low rise red brick and concrete blocks of flats that make up the Spitalfields Estate, there’s a big Victorian building, which looks like an old school. Outside, there’s a small football pitch, [...]

Snared by gang life, one teen finds a way out

By VICTOR A. PATTON If a life could be summed up within the pages of a book, then the chapters of 19-year-old Antonio’s would mostly be about a Merced boy growing up poor. One chapter would be about what it’s like for eight kids and a single mother to share a two-bedroom apartment, in an [...]