Drive-By - Hardcover

Rivlin, Gary

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ISBN 10: 0805029214 ISBN 13: 9780805029215

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1995

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Drive-by shootings are almost by definition anonymous - there are no fingerprints, no fibers, no hairs, nor any other telltale clues typical of most crime scenes. There is usually no hard evidence beyond ballistics and a car description so generic it is virtually useless.
In Drive-By, Gary Rivlin penetrates the anonymity of one such incident and creates an extraordinary portrait of the people entangled in it. He takes us behind the headlines, and through bold investigative reporting, finds the individuals so often left out of the story. In this real-life narrative, we meet the teens who, on Sunday, the eighth of July, were involved in a scuffle over a bicycle, and on the ninth became murderers and victims. By presenting the story of this murder in human terms, Rivlin challenges the stereotypes and indifference that allow the problem of inner-city violence to escalate.

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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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