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Hoover Crips

When Cripin' Becomes a Way of Life

Steven R. Cureton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

94 Seiten

2008
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-3888-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Steven R. Cureton is associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Professor Cureton has published in the Journal of Gang Research, the Journal of Criminal Justice, the Journal of Black Studies, and African-American Research Perspectives. His work also appears in Ron Huff's Gangs in America III and Markowitz and Brown's The System in Black and White: Exploring the Connections between Race, Crime, and Justice.

Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 South Central's Crip and Hoover Phenomenon
Chapter 4 Origins of the Crip Gang
Chapter 5 Emergent Gangsterism Perspective (EGP)
Chapter 6 Introducing Hoover's Original Gangsters
Chapter 7 Oral History of Hoover
Chapter 8 Hoover Crip Nostaliga: 1970 through 1980
Chapter 9 Contemporary Hoover: 1990 through 2005
Chapter 10 Hoover: Not Just a gang but a Way of Life
Chapter 11 The Game: Gang Affliation, Gang Members, and Gang Bangers
Chapter 12 Gang Joining
Chapter 13 Reputation Building, Hustling, and Territorial Claims
Chapter 14 Peace and War
Chapter 15 When There Is Peace
Chapter 16 When There Is War
Chapter 17 Death Has Residency in the Ghetto
Chapter 18 Now You Know
Chapter 19 Gang Research Discovery
Chapter 20 Where Are They Now?
Chapter 21 Afterthoughts
Part 22 Appendix
Part 23 Limited Research on Black Gangs
Part 24 Methodology
Part 25 References

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.3.2008
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	141 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7618-3888-0 / 0761838880
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-3888-3 / 9780761838883
Zustand	Neuware