Youth Terror: The View from Behind the Gun Dir. Helen Whitney (1978)

"Street gangs and the violence associated with them have always been predominatly an urban phenomenon. The combination of extreme poverty, overcrowding and alienation that exists in the urban ghettos and slums makes these areas breeding grounds for criminal activity. Not all children of the urban poor resort to violence and crime, but for a persistent and growing hard-core, violence and crime are a way of life. For some, crime is considered the only means of survival."