REVIEW OF FEDERAL AND STATE DEFINITIONS OF THE TERMS “GANG,

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BRIEF REVIEW OF FEDERAL AND STATE DEFINITIONS OF
THE TERMS “GANG,” “GANG CRIME,” AND “GANG MEMBER”
(AS OF DECEMBER 2018)
https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/…/Docume…/Definitions.pdf

Brief California 

 Penal Code § 186.22 Criminal street gang Organization, association, 

or group 3 or more persons Formal or informal “having as one of its primary activities

 the commission  of one or more of the criminal acts

. . . and whose members individually or collectively, engage in or 

have engaged in a pattern of criminal gang activity”

BRIEF REVIEW OF FEDERAL AND STATE DEFINITIONS OF THE 

TERMS “GANG,” “GANG CRIME,” AND “GANG MEMBER”
(AS OF DECEMBER 2016)

https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/…/Docume…/Definitions.pdf