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This 4 page paper is a discussion of the book "Angry Young Men" by Aaron Kipnis, a look at today's troubled youth and how to turn them around. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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door slid in place. Clink, chunk-the second lock was secured. Click, click, click-the sound of the guards leather heels striking the concrete floor steadily diminished as he strode away from
my seven-by-eight foot, windowless, steel-doored cell. I was eleven years old" (Kipnis, 1999, p. 4). So begins Aaron Kipniss account of his own life as a "bad boy," and
what he did to turn it around. He begins by observing that there are far too many young people getting in trouble these days, and that the vast majority is
male. He asks, What is it about society that puts young men at such risk, and what can be done about it? Some of his ideas are new, some not
quite so new, but because he came from the same background as todays angry young men, he speaks with authority. Some people disparage anecdotal evidence because its not "hard science"
(that is, backed up with facts, statistics and studies), but it offers a first-hand look at what its like to be a lawbreaker, a troubled youth, and someone who might
have easily ended up in prison for life. Consider that for the seven years after he was first sent to jail at age 11, Kipnis lived either in detention
homes or on the streets in Hollywood, or the Tenderloin or Haight Ashbury districts in San Francisco (Kipnis, 1999). He lived with drug dealers, Hells Angels, drag queens, prostitutes and
pimps, ate out of dumpsters, "committed acts of prostitution, sold drugs, and did whatever else I could to survive as a teenager alone on the city streets" (Kipnis, 1999, p.
4). His harrowing description of his life as a "bad boy" gives his book an authenticity that no scholar can match, no matter how many studies he does. Kipnis has
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