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Focusing on urban street killing, Warley (social work, California State U., Los Angeles) examines pathways to homicide for adolescent male offenders as a means to understand the process. She documents key situational factors, including intent to do harm, the type of weapon, motive, offenders' perception of victim-precipitation, social audience effects, and systemic drug-relatedness, as well as the severity of outcome and the relationship between structural-cultural variables like race/ethnicity. She also considers neighborhood violence and drug trafficking; availability of guns in the neighborhood; association with violent peers; gun ownership, carrying, and use; and involvement in drug trafficking. The study ends with a discussion of developing violence prevention and intervention strategies. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
