the crip lifestlye

Title: the crip lifestlye
Category: Literature / English | Words: 1392 | Pages: 5.9 (approximately 235 words/page)

the crip lifestlye

The Way of the Crips Los Angeles; By 10 a.m., the Playboy Gangster Crips are hanging down on Corning Street, calling each other "Cuz," sipping quarts of Old English 800 Malt Liquor. The graffiti on the building behind them is theirs. So is the broken beer bottle glass on the piece of dirt front yard. They're listening to rap tunes blaring out of an enormous boom box radio. They punch each other in the shoulder and …showed first 75 words of 1392 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1392 total…want to live by the laws of society. I think that the following quote by Irving Spergel (1989) suggests the best summary for the Crips in society today. "The Crips are juvenile and young adults associating together for serious, especially violent, criminal behavior with special concerns for 'turf'. Turf can signify the control of a physical territory, a criminal enterprise, or both. By simply wearing the wrong color in a certain neighborhood can get you killed.”

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