
Among the Hoods
"They changed me a lot more than I changed them ... I went in as Anne Widdecombe and came out an anarchist."
In 2008 Harriet Sergeant - think tank report-writer, Daily Mail journalist and author of The Public and the Police - befriended a teenage gang in south London while doing research. What began as a conversation outside a chicken take-away shop became a three-year attempt to change their lives...
"They changed me a lot more than I changed them ... I went in as Anne Widdecombe and came out an anarchist."
In 2008 Harriet Sergeant - think tank report-writer, Daily Mail journalist and author of The Public and the Police - befriended a teenage gang in south London while doing research. What began as a conversation outside a chicken take-away shop became a three-year attempt to change their lives...
