This book is intended to help parents identify signs that their child may be in a gang. It will also assist parents in keeping their child from joining a gang. Author Cochran will share his past as a gang leader with you. He considers himself to be a gang expert, one who never went to Harvard or Yale. The streets where he lived the gang life, from age ten to his mid forty's, were his college. Author Cochran is no longer a gang member, he now lives his life helping young people avoid going down the same path he went down. He wants parents to use this book as a guide to help keep their kids from joining a gang and if they are in a gang, a guide to how to get help before it's too late.