The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stories from Old San Francisco.(Dangerous Strangers: Minority Newcomers and Criminal Violence in the Urban West, 1850-2000)(Book review)

Publication: California History

Publication Date: 22-SEP-06

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THE TOUGHEST GANG IN TOWN: POLICE STORIES FROM OLD SAN FRANCISCO

By Kevin J. Mullen (Novato, CA: Noir Publications, 2005, 266 pp., $16.95, paper)

DANGEROUS STRANGERS: MINORITY NEWCOMERS AND CRIMINAL VIOLENCE IN THE URBAN WEST, 1850-2000

By Kevin J. Mullen (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 2003 pp., $69.95, cloth)

The Toughest Gang in Town targets a general audience with fascinating stories of career criminals, ethnic gangs, cross-dressing felons, and hoodlums confronting an increasingly professional police force. The context is a "town with a very full history of crazy times." [p....

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