Chosen Ones

Nikki Jones is Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Eric’s Awakening2. The Crime-Fighting Community3. Targets4. Buffers and Bridges5. “A Rose out of This Cement”: Jay’s StoryConclusion: Lessons from the FieldNotesReferencesIndex

"Jones does a masterful job exploring the process of redemption among street-involved Black men; a process that is neither linear nor solely an individual effort. Her critique of violence prevention programmes shows the ineffectiveness of such initiatives in making Black communities safer while exacerbating problems of crime and violence. The Chosen Ones is an important contribution at the intersection of race, crime, and justice and would be well suited for scholars and students of Criminology, Sociology, African American Studies, and Gender Studies."