Category: Jumped In

Broken Borders: The US Roots of Central American Gangs

August 19, 2014

In an excerpt adapted from ‘Jumped In: What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption,’ sociologist Jorja Leap explores the real origins of the Central American gangs at the heart of our current border crisis.
Jumped In: What Gangs Taught Me About Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption

March 7, 2012

Jumped In is a chronicle of the unexpected lessons gang members taught a professor as she was busily studying them, and how they changed her forever.

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