SOC SCI 66 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Ms-13, Mexican Mafia, Tiny Rascal Gang
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Auxiliary: one female gang to one male gang and leadership comes from males. Co-ed: leadership comes from females and/or males. Jokie, a female gang member, got a four year ride scholarship to ucla but she turned it down and refused to go because she prioritized her gang more. The lady rascal game (lrg) was the female gang that associated with and helped the all-male tiny rascal gang (trg) In 1996, lrg absorbed into trg, now a co-ed street gang, majority of membership is male: sometimes, auxiliary female gangs are absorbed into the male gang they are associated with. The new gang that is formed is a co-ed or hybrid street gang. Co-ed gangs are sometimes referred to as hybrid gangs. Innocent bitch killers (ibk: asian street gangs range from 5 to 40 members. May include other races, but majority are of asian descent. For many gang members, the gang becomes a surrogate family to them.
