List of Tables Territoriality Among African-American Street Gangs in Los Angeles
Alex A. Alonso, University of Southern California, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0255

1.1 Average Estimates of Gangs and Gang Members in Six Cities 1974-1975….6

2.1 Graffiti Messages from 79 AD and in 1965…………………………...….........20

2.2 Symbolism in Hispanic Gang Graffiti……………………………………...........42

2.3 Robert Sack’s Ten Tendencies of Territoriality …..……………………….......48

4.1 Black Population in the City of Los Angeles………………………………......74

5.1 Number of Black Gangs in Los Angeles County, 1972-1996…………....…..98

5.2 Number of Black Gangs in Los Angeles County Cities, 1996…….……..…104

5.3 Number of Gangs in Cities/Unincorporated Areas of Los Angeles County..106

5.4 Average and Total Size of Black Gang
Territories in Square Miles, 1972-1996……………………………………..........110

5.5 Average Size of Black Gang Territories in Square Miles, 1996…………....112

5.6 Demographic Characteristics of the Eastside and
Westside of Los Angeles, 1990…………………………………………..….........119

5.7 Gang Names in Los Angeles, 1996…………………………………..........…121

5.8 Black Gang Affiliations in Los Angeles, 1972-1996…………..……..……....128

5.9 Number of Bloods and Crips in Los Angeles County, 1996……….…...........132

5.10 Number of Bloods and Crips in the City of Los Angeles, 1996….…...….....134

5.11 Black Gang Alliances in Los Angeles………………………….……........….135

5.12 Gang Type and Average Size in Square Miles……………….……......……140

6.1 Gang Related Homicides in the Southwest Division, 1993-1997………...….151

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