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Sudhir Venkatesh the young sociologist who became famous in Freakonomics (Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?) describes his time living with the gangs on the Southside of Chicago and answers another question: what's it like to live in hell?
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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The gun club
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh 320pp, Allen Lane, £18.99 As a young sociology student at the University of Chicago in 1989, Sudhir Venkatesh decided it would be interesting to study poverty in one of the most deprived neighbourhoods of the ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- eBook 320 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0141920645
- ISBN-13: 9780141920641
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Pub date: Feb 05, 2009
- Also available as: Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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At home with the Black Kings
Gang Leader For a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line by Sudhir Venkatesh Allen Lane £18.99, pp299 Aged 16, walking around Chicago in 1971, I chanced upon a city within a city on the Southside called Robert Taylor Homes, the biggest housing pro ... (read full critics)