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...Sikes writes at the end of 8 Ball Chicks of her year-long research with girls in gangs that, except for the gangs in San Antonio, the gang society is generations old, and for that reason, the problem is society’s problem. She feels this way because the children in generations of gang families do not understand how to break the ties. One interviewee says that in school when girls start dating boys, there is nothing else to choose but gang members (109). Sikes notes changes in attitudes only when bad things begin to happen to the children of these young mothers. It was only for this reason that they wanted change and hoped to find it. One had art to turn to. Otherwise, there is nothing to guide these children out of gang life except a sort of exhaustion from dealing with the gang and the law, family deaths and suicides. TJ, one of the women interviewed, says you develop an attitude that, dying never stops (Sikes 27). As Sikes takes us through the family backgrounds and reinforcement...