'The Interrupters'—Stopping Violence Before It Spreads in Inner-City America

http://www.thenation.com/article/162530/interrupters-violence-in-inner-city-america

Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz are something of a narrative power couple in Chicago. They’ve both become leading chroniclers of inner-city America—James with his seminal documentary Hoop Dreams and Kotlowitz with his probing first book, There Are No Children Here. When they were filming their new documentary, The Interrupters, James joked that more people had seen Hoop Dreams but that Kotlowitz’s book had become a cult classic in prisons across the state.