Eventually, these groups were all war with each other. The gang’s activities largely originated in high-school campuses across L.A. In the 1960s, however, the foundation for a more thoroughly armed, consolidated and violent variety - the Crips - fell into place in South Central L.A. It was the 1950s that introduced lowrider culture to Los Angeles, though the weapons of choice back then consisted of now nearly charming knives and bats. Though Thrasher’s social analysis is now nearly a century old, the main tenets of gang culture - namely the "attachment to a local territory" he mentions further on - really haven’t changed too much since then.Īccording to Stanford University’s Julia Dunn in Poverty & Prejudice: Gangs of All Colors, gang culture shifted from petty crimes such as theft and forgery in the 1920s and 1930s to extortion and gambling in the 1940s. "It is characterized by the following types of behavior: meeting face to face, milling, movement through space as a unit, conflict, and planning." "A gang is an interstitial group, originally formed spontaneously, and then integrated through conflict," Frederic Thrasher wrote in his 1927 book The Gang. Even this majority, however, living on the periphery, has been culturally made aware of the Los Angeles Crips and the Bloods.
Most Americans have the luxury of being entirely uninformed of gang culture, the minutiae of street life, or the adherence to the vitally imperative code one needs to follow in order not to be killed.
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