Youth Violence: ‘I Want Out Of My Gang Family’

Youth Violence: ‘I Want Out Of My Gang Family’

This is a teen-written article from our friends at Represent Magazine, a platform for and by young people in foster care. Some details from this young woman’s story have been changed. At age 13 I got fascinated with the gang members in my neighborhood. About 20 of...
Fighting Street Gun Violence as if It Were a Contagion

Fighting Street Gun Violence as if It Were a Contagion

CHICAGO — Gary Slutkin, an epidemiologist, has spent his life treating contagious diseases: cholera, tuberculosis, H.I.V. — and for the last 23 years, violence. Yes, violence. A disease is a condition with identifiable symptoms that causes sickness or death. That...
Teen Gang Involvement

Teen Gang Involvement

One of the things that can greatly increase the chances of your teenager becoming involved in teen violence is involvement with gangs. Gangs account for a majority of the serious violence in the United States (1), and these gangs are not shy about recruiting teens....