Children Get Out of the Ghetto Mentality attempts to reach youths (mostly school leavers) who are for one reason or another, are faced with a life of poverty, deprivation and crime.
The author focuses much of his attention in and around the streets of St Anns, Radford and the Meadows – in fact he lives in St Anns and is concerned about the negative press reports St Anns gets.
The culture of gang war, gun culture, drugs, prostitution and truancy tend to emerge throughout the pages as his interviews get under way.