carter smith. thank you for being here. as a professional academic now no longer a practitioner this is a very large audience. we get large classes and we teach with many dozens and sometimes a little bit more than a hundred students. right, i don't know why we go. we do. one of the things that people ask a lot is how i got interested in the topics before i respond i have to think the organizers and volunteers of the southern book festival. the middle tennessee state university. the book was about 25 years in the making. it was not necessary a labor of love but it was an adventure. i got interested in the topic beginning in the early 1990s. it began seen in indicators that groups of individuals were engaging in correlated criminal gang activity. we have not seen anything like that before. having learned to maintain relationships with police officers and other locations and having kept up with current events we knew what we have discovered. the problem as we thought was that gangs had infiltrated our small military committee

carter smith. thank you for being here. as a professional academic now no longer a practitioner this is a very large audience. we get large classes and we teach with many dozens and sometimes a little bit more than a hundred students. right, i don't know why we go. we do. one of the things that people ask a lot is how i got interested in the topics before i respond i have to think the organizers and volunteers of the southern book festival. the middle tennessee state university. the book was about 25 years in the making. it was not necessary a labor of love but it was an adventure. i got interested in the topic beginning in the early 1990s. it began seen in indicators that groups of individuals were engaging in correlated criminal gang activity. we have not seen anything like that before. having learned to maintain relationships with police officers and other locations and having kept up with current events we knew what we have discovered. the problem as we thought was that gangs had infiltrated our small military committee

he will hear from criminal justice professor carter smith who looks at why some veterans join gangs and extremist groups and how their military training poses an increased threat. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> here is a look at some of the books being published this week. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many auditors in the near future on booktv on c-span. >> how you might wonder, there are all these other communities too? i didn't know this community, i had never been here, didn't have any friends here but i had heard, in 2009, looking for a setting for one of the stories for the washington post. someone mentioned there was a community in wisconsin that lost a big old general motors plant. that was interesting but didn't come here at the time because this just happened. a lot of people were still getting sub pay. the economic pain hadn't begun to see thin. but it lingered in my mind. getting started after i did this scary thing of taking time off from my job and kept thinking of various places i could

smith family. [cheering and applause] everybody's here trying to win theyself a lotta cash, and somebody--somebody might just drive outta here in a brand-new car. let's play "feud." give me carternswers on the board. guys, here we go. name a place in the hospital a doctor takes a nurse for a romantic examination. [buzzer] jay: waiting room. steve: waiting room. woman: good answer. [buzzer] audience: aww... carter: the emergency room. steve: emergency room. [buzzer] audience: aww... steve: jamie? jamie: the on-call room. steve: the on-call room. man: good answer, good answer. steve: uh...oh, jessa? jessa: yeah, the supply closet. steve: the supply closet. man: good answer. whoo! steve: pass or play?