![]() ![]() The book concludes with a discussion of policy implications and recommendations. Barrio residents' adaptation to the simultaneous presence of illegal and legal entitities in their neighborhoods are explored. Finally, the study presents the reasons for barrio residents' general optimism about their neighborhoods in relation to three basic factors: the ethnic minority context of Chicanos in Los Angeles the well-developed institutional system of local, State, and Federal governments and the barrio economic system, which has much in common with other cities' ghetto economic systems. It considers how barrio norms not only survive among the men of the barrios who go to prison in California but reemerge in the self-help groups created in those prisons. Next it follows the growth of heroin and barbiturates use in Chicano neighborhoods and the growth of the markets for those drugs. The book first examines the persistence and influence of the barrio Chicano youth gangs. The study focused on three barrios selected because of their immediate relevance to ongoing community projects. Gang members and ex-convicts participated in the design and conduct of the research, a feature expected to nullify the Chicanos' hostility toward researchers.
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