...Macmillan, 2005, 2003 pp., $69.95, cloth)

The Toughest Gang Town targets a general audience with fascinating stories of career criminals, ethnic gangs, cross-dressing felons, and hoodlums confronting an increasingly professional police force. The context is a "town with a very full history of crazy times." [p....

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