RT Book
T1 Out of the red: my life of gangs, prison, and redemption
T2 Critical issues in crime and society
A1 Bolden, Christian L.
LA English
PP New Brunswick, Camden Newark, New Jersey London
PB Rutgers University Press
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1672292468
AB Poverty -- Adultism -- Neighborhoods -- Bangin' in San Antone -- Escalation -- Purgatory -- Texas hold 'em -- Fellowship -- Between the Lines -- Transitions -- Wally World -- Starting from the bottom -- Letters -- Outcast -- Freedom -- Pinnacles.
AB "Out of the Red is one man's pathbreaking story of how social forces and personal choices intertwined to deliver an unfortunate fate. A childhood of poverty, institutional discrimination, violence, hopelessness, and other traumatic experiences, his life course took him through the treacherous landscape of street gangs at the age of 14. For a kid from poverty and family strife, thrown away by the public education system, the Bloods offered a sense of family, protection, excitement, and power. Incarceration during the Texas prison boom, and the teenage former gangster was thrust into a fight for survival as he navigated the perils of adult prison. As mass incarceration and prison gangs swallowed up youth like him, survival meant finding hope in a hopeless situation and carving a path to his own rehabilitation. Despite all odds, he forged a new path through education, ultimately achieving the seemingly impossible for a formerly incarcerated ex-gangbanger"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV6439.U7
SN 9781978804524
SN 9781978804531
K1 Bolden, Christian L
K1 Gang members : Texas : Biography
K1 Prisoners : Texas : Biography
K1 Ex-convicts : Texas : Biography
K1 Autobiografie
K1 Texas : Strafentlassener : Bande : Mitglied