Hoover crips : when cripin' becomes a way of life / Steven R. Cureton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cureton, Steven R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crips (Gang).

Gangs--California--Los Angeles.

Gangs.

African Americans--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions.

African Americans.

Social conditions.

California--Los Angeles.

Physical Description:

xvi, 72 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press Of America, 2008.

Summary:

Hoover Crips is the product of field interviews with Crip gang members in South Central Los Angeles, California. Older gang members offer a dramatic portrayal of their life experiences within a social world beset by gangster politics. The book reveals the Hoover street gang is a community institution that significantly impacts the lifestyle choices of Black male residents. The main feature of the book is its insider's view of gangs. Unique information gathered by Professor Steven R. Cureton includes: the origins and current state of the Hoover community, gang, and residents, insight into the subculture of gang membership, reputation building, and hustling drugs, guns, and people for survival, the balance between humanity, civility, peace, and war in gang life, and new discoveries relative to Black residency in a gang-dominated environment.

The study concludes with a "where they are now" for the participants in the interviews. This book is recommended for courses in deviance, juvenile delinquency, criminology, cultural deviance, urban communities/sociology of communities, race in America, Black experiences, race relations, race and ethnic relations, qualitative research methodology, and ethnographic research.

Contents:

South Central's Crip and Hoover phenomenon

Origins of the Crip gang

Emergent gangsterism perspective (EGP)

Introducing Hoover's original gangsters

Oral history of Hoover

Hoover Crip nostalgia: 1970 through 1980

Contemporary Hoover: 1990 through 2007

Hoover: not just a gang but a way of life

The game: gang affiliation, gang members and gang bangers

Gang joining

Reputation building, hustling, and territorial claims

Peace and war

When there is peace

When there is war

Death has residency in the ghetto

Now you know

Gang research discovery

Where are they now?

After thoughts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0761838880

9780761838883

OCLC:

173807989