Product Description: A memoir of the author's life as a Crip -- beginning at the tender age of ten in the mid 70s -- and his prison turnaround twenty-five years later.

Product Description: 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...read more

The personal memoirs of a surviving member of one of Los Angeles's most dangerous gangs describes the home environment that contributed to his gang membership at the age of ten, his violent confrontations with rival gang members from the Bloods, and his incarceration in Calipatria prison. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

A late Nobel Peace Prize nominee describes his co-founding of the notorious Crips gang and the criminal activities for which he was executed in 2005, relating how from prison he became a powerful anti-gang activist and inspiration to such figures as Desmond Tutu, Jesse Jackson, and Jamie Foxx. Original. 17,000 first printing.

The author's memoir of life sixteen years as a gang member in the Los Angeles Crips chronicles his brutal rise within the organization as well as his subsequent jail term and his political and personal transformation into an anti-gang crusader. Reprint.

Fourteen gang members from Los Angeles, members of rival gangs the Crips and the Bloods, discuss such subjects as the bonds among gang members, 'gangsta' rap music, and the possibility of an end to gang violence