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Soft cover. Condizione: COLLECTIBLE - NEW. Condizione sovraccoperta: None as Issued. First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW & Collectible. Author signed. Treatise on gangs in America's public schools by an educator and teacher, whose first year in teaching at a junior high school in Los Angeles was marred by the death of three students in his homeroom to gang warfare. Richard Arthur argues reduction of the attractiveness of gangs, which schools can do, holds the solution. Sociologist Robert K. Merton pointed out when individuals are thwarted in acheiving culturally valued goals of money, status and power, they are apt to abandon accepted social paths to success and turn to illegitimate means (ie, dealing in drugs, bullism, theft, blackmail). Signed by Author/Gift Dedicati.…