RaveBookforum[Ghettoside is] a true-crime book that leaves the reader haunted not by its cast of criminals but by the society in which those criminals operate ... the grander tragedy that impels Ghettoside—and the reason it shouldn’t be overlooked or treated as just another true-crime chronicle—is, as Leovy writes, that 'where the criminal justice system fails to respond vigorously to violent injury and death, homicide becomes endemic.'”
