The Streets Are Still Preying: Urban Black Female Youth at the Intersection of Street-Life Involvement and Personal Experiences of Violence

The streets are still preying expands on my earlier research about urban Black female youth’s violence victimization and perpetration. Many urban Black female youth fall prey to the street-life subculture often identified as “the hustle.” The fractured stories of these female youth have been and still go untold. An in-depth analysis of the tragic stories of their lives provides convincing evidence and insightful explanations of the intersection of street-life involvement and personal experiences of violence (i.e., fatal violence perpetrator, fatal violence victim, family violence victim, school fighting perpetrator, and street-fight involvement).