When the first edition of People and Folks appeared, it challenged and ultimately changed the way we thought about gangs in America. With the second edition, important new information has been added to this path-breaking research. We now hear the voices of girls and learn of their special problems in marginalized communities; we also hear what has happened to the boys we first met in the first edition. The news is not good on either count, but it is an important read. That in one post-industrial American city, drug sales have become the single largest employer of African-American and Hispanic men should be seen as a national disgrace. Maybe after this book is published, it will be.