http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2007/08/06/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-street-gangs-but-didnt-know-whom-to-ask/

Great read - essentially, the guy is a sociology student who went and hung out with a crack-dealing gang for a few months. This is just his answers to some of the questions people posed about the realities of "gang life."

I caught this on the Freakonomics blog RSS feed.
Good read.

/tk

http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittVenkateshAnEconomicAnalysis2000.pdf

I thought this was interesting, anyways.

He lost me with the whole "Frats are gangs too". Sure, except they don't kill people for fun, run drugs, etc.

He lost me with the whole "Frats are gangs too". Sure, except they don't kill people for fun, run drugs, etc.

No, they just use them. And their killings are largely accidental.

But in all seriousness, good catch.

No, they just use them. And their killings are largely accidental.

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