Inside the Crips

Colton Simpson recounts growing up inside the Crips, starting when he was a ten-year-old in the mid-1970s. The book follows him through those years of gang membership and then to a prison cell, where, roughly a quarter century later, he began to change course.

Set in Los Angeles, the memoir gives a first-hand view of gang life from the inside, showing how a child could be drawn into the group and what it cost him to stay. Ann Pearlman is credited as a co-author.