Displaying 1 of 1 2020 Format: Book Author: Dudley, Steven author. Title: MS-13 : the making of America's most notorious gang / Steven Dudley. Publisher, Date: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2020] Description: 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Summary: Looks at the most dangerous street gang in America, MS-13, as seen through the lives of one family caught in its malicious web. Subjects: MS-13 (Gang) MS-13 (Gang) Gangs -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies. Gangs -- El Salvador -- Case studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity. Gangs. California -- Los Angeles. El Salvador. Genre: Case studies. Case studies. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-339) and index. J. Anthony Lukas Award Contents: Introduction: Judging Norman -- part I. Getting in (1979-1990): The beginning ; Norman's wars ; The making of a street gang ; The ghost of William Walker -- part II. Getting serious (1990-2010): Los señores ; The deported ; "We go to war" ; "We ruled" ; Escape to Zacatraz -- part III. Getting out (2010-2019): The gang truce ; God and the beast ; The new war ; Nothing to hide ; The monster. ISBN: 9781335005540 (hardcover) 1335005544 (hardcover) OCLC: 1134850603 System Availability: 4 # System items in: 3 # Local items: 1 # Local items in: 1 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Large Cover Image Trade Reviews Library Journal ReviewWinner of Columbia School of Journalism's 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Award for a work in progress, this completed work examines the world's most notorious street gang by following founding member Alejandro from blood-drenched El Salvador to Los Angeles, where he helped set up a social network called the Mara Salvatrucha Stoners; the group's turn to petty crime led to jail and deportation, which only made them fiercer. With a 100,000-copy first printing.Publishers Weekly ReviewJournalist Dudley, who spent the last two decades covering crime in Latin America, brings his expertise to his chilling debut about the street gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. Started more than 40 years ago in Los Angeles, the gang consisted of mostly teenage Salvadoran boys who wanted to forget the violence of their home country and its civil war by drinking and playing loud music. But it grew into a vicious group known for brutal murders. After gang members were rounded up, sent to U.S. prisons, and then deported, they recreated the gang in El Salvador and spread to other Central American nations. Dudley personalizes the history of MS-13 in a boy he calls Norman, a typical gang member, who as a child in El Salvador turned to the gang to protect him from the army, the war, and domestic violence. Eventually, Norman fled to the U.S. to get out of MS-13, but he has lived in fear ever since. For anyone who has ever wondered why and how gang members are made, Dudley has the answers. Agent: Daniel Greenberg, Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary. (May) Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1