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The Nature of Gang Spawning Communities:
African American Gangs in Compton, CA: 1960 – 2013
by
Aubrey Relf
University of Southern California
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC SOL PRICE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF POLICY, PLANNING, AND DEVELOPMENT
May 2014
Object Description
| Title | The nature of gang spawning communities: African American gangs in Compton, CA: 1960-2013 |
| Author | Relf, Aubrey |
| Author email | relf@usc.edu;aubreyrelf@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Policy, Planning & Development |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Policy, Planning and Development |
| School | School of Policy, Planning and Development |
| Date defended/completed | 2014-04-27 |
| Date submitted | 2014-04-27 |
| Date approved | 2014-04-28 |
| Restricted until | 2014-04-28 |
| Date published | 2014-04-28 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Mitchell, Leonard |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Natoli, Deborah McCroskey, Jacquelyn |
| Abstract | African American gangs have existed in Compton since the late 1960s, policy makers, scholars, and residents have sought to understand why certain communities remain vulnerable to gang persistence. This study investigated factors that have possibly contributed to this persistence in Compton, CA during 1960 to 2013. The study used a qualitative research design and facilitated semi‐structured interviews with twelve people, age twenty to seventy, who lived in Compton for at least 20 years. The analysis revealed that gangs persisted because several youth adopted an identity that glorified the gangster culture, the influx of drugs which: fractured family structures, enflamed gang warfare, and provided illegal means of economic growth. Moreover, as gang wars evolved from fistfights to drive‐by shootings, they enhanced community exposure to violence and elicited retaliation that has contributed to gang persistence. Overall, from a community structural vantage point, marginalization, poverty, crack cocaine, and a lack of jobs facilitated a place where gangs and crime may thrive. |
| Keyword | adolescent development; gangs; human development; life-course trajectory; protective factor; risk factor |
| Language | English |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Relf, Aubrey |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-RelfAubrey-2429.pdf |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume8/etd-RelfAubrey-2429.pdf |
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| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | The Nature of Gang Spawning Communities: African American Gangs in Compton, CA: 1960 – 2013 by Aubrey Relf University of Southern California A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC SOL PRICE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF POLICY, PLANNING, AND DEVELOPMENT May 2014 |
