Drive By - Softcover

Gary Rivlin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0704380129 ISBN 13: 9780704380127

Publisher: Interlink Publishing+group Inc, 1996

Synopsis

The story of a group of teenagers whose dispute over a bicycle ended in murder presents the experiences of their families, investigators, and defenders, in an examination of the human element of random violence. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.

About this title

About the Author:

Award-winning narrator RICHARD FERRONE is a lawyer-turned-actor who spent eight years with the Tony Award-winning Trinity Repertory and then Tony Randall's National Actors Theatre. He has appeared on several popular TV series including Law & Order and Against the Law.

From Library Journal:

Rivlin, a reporter for an Oakland, California, newspaper and author of Fire on the Prairie (LJ 3/15/92), delves behind a drive-by killing of one teen by three others during the summer of 1990. Using the murder as an example, Rivlin intends to throw light on America's epidemic of youth violence. In spite of his great investigative reporting and a sympathetic portrayal of the murderers' lives, the murder is still inexplicable. The killers did not know the murdered 13-year-old or the others they wounded; they did not at first realize anyone was shot. Instead, the three boys had a case of hurt pride against another kid about a bicycle, but they never intended to murder him. How did it all happen? Rivlin piles up incriminating factors. All the principals lived in East Oakland's "killing zone," where police term murders during drug deals "victimless crimes." The public schools had failed the boys. Their families, beset with overwhelming burdens, could not prevent their boys from becoming drug dealers. Rivlin suggests that this combination, along with a setting where poor housing, violence, drugs, liquor, guns, and a lack of escape routes is endemic, makes a drive-by killing or some other tragedy inevitable. For general social science and criminology collections.?Janice Dunham, John Jay Coll. Lib., New York
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About this edition

• Publisher: Interlink Publishing+group Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0704380129
• ISBN 13: 9780704380127
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288