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The extraordinary true story of one woman's friendship with a South London gang
Harriet Sergeant's three year friendship with a South London teenage gang began when she met them while researching a report. She was investigating fears that young men, like this gang, were responsible for the majority of crime in our inner cities. The issues that Harriet had written about - single mothers, absent fathers, lack of education and the criminal justice system - took on new meaning as she encountered the reality of these very young men’s lives. Her own ideas were profoundly challenged as she tried to help the gang members to help themselves. In this remarkable and moving book, the forces that turned potentially decent young men into misfits and criminal are investigated.