Crips

The Crips are an African American street gang founded in Los Angeles in the late 1960s that expanded into a network of loosely affiliated sets.

Raymond Washington: Raymond Washington was a Los Angeles gang leader associated with the Crips’ formation in the late 1960s. He is widely identified as a founder whose early leadership helped establish the Crips.
Street gang: A street gang is a durable group whose members identify with a name or territory and engage in collective street activity. The Crips are one large example of this broader kind of organization.
Bloods: The Bloods are a network of street-gang sets that formed in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. Their emergence as a rival network made Crips identity and intergang conflict more prominent.
Gang membership: Gang membership is an individual's participation in, or identification with, an organized street group. Affiliation with a Crips set can vary in commitment, duration, and daily involvement.
Stanley Williams: Stanley Williams was a Crips co-founder who later became a prominent anti-gang activist while imprisoned. His role in the gang’s early history and later public profile shaped accounts of its origins.
Gang set: A gang set is a local group affiliated with a larger gang identity, often organized around a neighborhood or shared name. Crips identity is expressed through numerous local sets rather than one unified membership.
Gang violence: Gang violence is violence involving members of organized street groups, including assaults and homicides. Conflict involving Crips sets contributed to public concern about gang violence in Los Angeles.
Gang desistance research: Gang desistance research studies how people reduce or end participation in street gangs. It examines how individuals leave affiliations such as Crips sets and what supports that change.
South Central Los Angeles: South Central Los Angeles is a historically African American region of Los Angeles encompassing several neighborhoods. The Crips emerged amid neighborhood conditions in this part of the city.
Gang alliance: A gang alliance is a changing partnership among separate street groups for mutual support or common aims. Some Crips sets cooperate, while their ties remain local and variable.

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