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One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
Bloomsbury Press
October 2011
On Sale: September 27, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 1608192644
EAN: 9781608192649
Kindle: B005PWMFRE
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Non-Fiction
Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its
attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime
problem in our country. In some neighborhoods in America,
one out of every two hundred young black men is shot to
death every year, and few initiatives of government and law
enforcement have made much difference. But when David
Kennedy, a self-taught and then-unknown criminologist,
engineered the "Boston Miracle" in the mid-1990s, he pointed
the way toward what few had imagined: a solution. Don't Shoot tells the story of Kennedy's long journey.
Riding with beat cops, hanging with gang members, and
stoop-sitting with grandmothers, Kennedy found that all
parties misunderstood each other, caught in a spiral of
racialized anger and distrust. He envisioned an approach in
which everyone-gang members, cops, and community
members-comes together in what is essentially a huge
intervention. Offenders are told that the violence must
stop, that even the cops want them to stay alive and out of
prison, and that even their families support swift law
enforcement if the violence continues. In city after city,
the same miracle has followed: violence plummets, drug
markets dry up, and the relationship between the police and
the community is reset. This is a landmark book, chronicling a paradigm shift in how
we address one of America's most shameful social problems. A
riveting, page-turning read, it combines the street vérité
of The Wire, the social science of Gang Leader for a Day,
and the moral urgency and personal journey of Fist
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