While this book is very educational, the authors have a strangely coherent bias towards "inner city" neighborhoods and this lifestyle. Fitzpatrick and LaGory also become quite repetitive in their content and contexts; while at some times it proves helpful, at others one wonders why you paid so much for this lengthy work when much of what they say throughout it was already stated previously; for some sections, I got the idea this book could have been written in much fewer pages. Again, it's very educational, but perhaps not quite as big a bang as one would expect or desire for the buck!.