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Author:

Simpson, Colton.

Title:

Inside the Crips : life inside L.A.'s most notorious gang / Colton Simpson with Ann Pearlman.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

St. Martin's Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xxiii, 323 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Simpson, Colton.
Crips (Gang)
Gang members--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Biography.

Other Authors:

Pearlman, Ann.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Foreword / by Ice T -- Transformation -- Gangbanger -- Out of the ghetto and into the CYA -- Road not taken -- Crips module -- The ultimate test : Chino -- Solitary -- Soledad -- Chess games -- Short freedom -- Discipline -- Betrayal -- Reality hits : war and depression -- Candy and a stamp -- Transformation of a Crip -- Uhuru.

Summary:

A memoir of the author's life as a Crip--beginning at the tender age of ten in the mid-seventies--and his prison turnaround nearly twenty-five years later.--From publisher description.

ISBN:

9780312329297
0312329296

LCCN:

2005042704

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

HYAX325 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Estherville (Estherville)

MYPC943 -- Gowrie Public Library (Gowrie)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)