Journalist Gini Sikes’ 8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangs is a brilliant, heart wrenching account of girl gang-bangers in LA, San Antonio and Milwaukee. Sikes captures the violence, the struggles, and the strength of the children and young women who get involved in gangs. Much attention has been paid to male gang members, but girl gangs have their own stories. While many start out as adjuncts to a male gang, they are their own community—the potential to be equally […]