Getting Out: Youth Gangs, Violence, and Positive Change

by Keith Morton

For eight years Keith Morton codirected a safe-space program for youth involved in gang or street violence in Providence, Rhode Island. Getting Out is a result of the innovative perspectives he developed as he worked alongside staff from a local nonviolence institute to help these young people make life-affirming choices. Rather than view their violence as pathological, Morton explains that gang members are victims of violence, and the trauma...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625344279
• ISBN13: 9781625344274
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher