Avelardo Valdez, author of HOMEBOYS FOREVER - a Boswell event

Sociologist Avelardo Valdez appears at Boswell with his new book, Homeboys Forever: The Lifetime Consequences of Gang Membership. This remarkable work is the product of twenty years of research and fieldwork in which Valdez and his research team have followed the lives of Mexican American men in San Antonio, Texas, watching and listening as they navigate adolescent delinquency and gang involvement, advance into a life of crime, and - sometimes - attempt to break from gang life and build lives in conventional society.

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David Brotherton says: "Valdez has produced a valuable contribution to the gang literature that should be widely read... The ethnographic writing is clear, theoretically informed, and is a powerful tribute to Valdez’s long and distinguished career in urban sociology."

Avelardo Valdez is author of Mexican American Girls and Gang Violence: Beyond Risk and co-editor of Puro Conjunto: An Album in Words and Pictures. Valdez is Professor Emeritus in the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and the department of sociology at the University of Southern California.