Crips and Bloods : a guide to an American subculture / Herbert C. Covey.
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TextSeries: Guides to subcultures and counterculturesPublisher: Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, 2015Description: xxi, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780313399299
- 0313399298
- HV 6439 .U5 C678 2015
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"This book provides a concise and engaging examination of the subculture of the Crips and Bloods--the notorious street gangs that started in Los Angeles, but have now spread throughout the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.
Timeline -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A history of the Crips and Bloods -- 3. Characteristics of Crip and Blood gangs -- 4. Characteristics of Crip and Blood members -- 5. Crip and Blood subcultures -- 6. Crip and Blood involvement with crime and violence -- 7. Blood and Crip involvement with alcohol and illegal drugs -- 8. Crips and Bloods in the media -- 9. Crip and Blood snapshots : examples of Crip and Blood gangs -- 10. The future of the Crips and Bloods -- Glossary.
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