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All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families Hardback - 2007

by Rene Denfeld

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James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. He joined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group--they called themselves a "family"--was arrested for a string of violent murders.

While Nelson sat in prison, the society he had helped form grew into a national phenomenon. Street families spread to every city from New York to San Francisco, and to many small towns in between, bringing violence with them. In 2003, almost eleven years after his original murder, Nelson, now called "Thantos," got out of prison, returned to Portland, created a new street family, and killed once more. Twelve family members were arrested along with him.

Rene Denfeld spent over a decade following the evolution of street family culture. She discovered that, contrary to popular belief, the majority of these teenagers hail from loving middle-class homes. Yet they have left those homes to form insular communities with cultish hierarchies, codes of behavior, languages, quasireligions, and harsh rules. She reveals the extremes to which desperate teenagers will go in their search for a sense of community, and builds a persuasive and troubling case that street families have grown among us into a dark reversal of the American ideal.

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  • Title All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families
  • Author Rene Denfeld
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 306
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date January 29, 2007
  • ISBN 9781586483098 / 1586483099
  • Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 6.42 x 1.15 in (23.72 x 16.31 x 2.92 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Gangs - United States, Murder - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006037157
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.106

About the author

Rene Denfeld is the author of two previous books, including the international bestseller The New Victorians. She has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times Magazine. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her partner and three children.
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