Hoover Crips: When Cripin' Becomes a Way of Life
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    [synopsis] => 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. 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. 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
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